The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1914-07-06
NOTABLE MANSION
Northern Visitor Tells of Grants Homo
and What He Found There.-Mem-
cries of Boyhood Days of Great
General.

Georgetown (Ohio) News Democrat
81 was at Georgetown, Ohio, Friday
last" writes Longfelow SlCle in the
Corunna, Michigan, News, (Which is
quiet little southern town and the
boyhood home of eX-President Ulysses
). Grant, and thinking your readers
might be interested will give some facts
concerning it.
"a friend kfldly took me out to the
residences in his auto, stopping on the
way to show ME the little old school
house of brick which the tablet embed
ded in the wall states, Ulysses $. Grant
attended school here in 1929, This
building which is one story high aud
6Ox3G feet has been painted within a
few years a light green color and o.
down the hill about a block on the Op-
posite side stands the Grant residence.
Jesse Grant, father of Ulysses, lived at
Point Pleasant, Ohio, where the lad was
born and moved to Georgetown when he
was about a year old in the year 1922.
They lived in a small residence GA APP
pie street, while the father built the
large substantial house on what is nav
called Grant avenue and at once started
building a tannery across the street,
Through the courtesy of Mrs. Geo. Bier,
who owns the homestead, | examined
the house which is built of brick now
painted a light gray color. Two story
high with two large fire places and
Is inches in thickness, large rooms but
low ceilings and large folding doors,
the castings of which are finely PANEL
ed ON their edges in small pannels. The
general air of the place seemed to give
one the sense of hospitality aHd of
fairly well to do-the regular Old,time
southern home which we Of the north
can hardly understand. who have
studied it for years, can only say, hap
piness and much less worry and fret
than we of the north are accustomed TO-
The windows have small glass as of
old. In front is a fine porch raised some
feet above the walk over which climbs
a large japanese vine which bears
flowers of different colors ON each
branch and growing up the end Of the
house are ivy vines from the tomb OF
George Washington. The old well in the
rear still offers a nice cool drink from
its chain pump of which partook.
"The. tannery across the street was
also built Of brick and had an addi'
tiOn of wood under which was the horse
power and bark mill which ground the
bark for the two large tan watts sank in
the rear to tan teh leather.
Young Grant commenced at about
S years of age, to drive the horse aad
do such other work as he was able wher
out of school to help his father At the
age of II years he entered the Militar,
Academy at West Point since viii
time we have his history fully written.
"The old homestead has been ON
by various persons, but is in a good
state of preservation. Thomas Jennings
was the second person owning it, He
sold to Mr.. Crute thea he in turn sold to
Walter Parker and the tannery to
Christian Single, a flour miller, who
erected a flour mill on the site Of the
old watts which is in full operation to-
day, while with a wooden addition at
tached to the tannery, his engineer now
lives. Mr.. Parker sold to a brother OF
Mrs. Bier, who in turn, passed it 90 to
her. A movement is now ON foot to
raise funds for large monument to be
erected on the Court House Square in
honor of the hero who said, We II fight
it out here on the old Union line no
odds II it takes US all summer.
81 am indebted TO Judge MaFshail
FOL q portion of these facts, wlso was a
cousin Of General Grant and resides at
Georgetown.