The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-04-28
HONOR FOR GRANT
SHOWN BY PUPILS
NATAL ANNIVERSARY Is TO
BE OBSERVED
THURSDAY IS BIRTHDAY
Patriotic Addresses Will Be De-
ivered By Several Promi-
nent Speakers:

uC OuS uuuui Gull VII luudy al :
niversary of General Ulysses Simr-
son Grant, celebrated American
general, and the eighteenth presl.
dent OF the United States will be
fttingly observed in the schools of
Mankato on Thursday, April q.
At the Teachers College a gen
eral assembly will be held in the
morning, at which time President
C. II. Cooper will address the stu
dents in a patriotic talk on the
Life OF Ulysses 5. Grant" Special
music will be presented ut this
program.
Judge Lorin Cray will be the
speaker at the Mankato Commercial
college on Thursday morning. Spec
gram at the college. Mrs. K. Z. Viii
son will give patriotic reading.
The grade schools are planning
lal rooms. The lower grades Will
be given talks about General Grant
by their teachers, and the upper
grades will bring to the class, incl
dents about the life OF General
Grant, or about the Civil war. Pa
triotic songs and pieces will also
compose part of the programs.
Miss Ruth Brown. pubic speaking
teacher at the high school, has
charge of the program which will
be presented there on Thursday
The students will take part in the
Flag Salute, the patriotic songs and
other numbers.
Native Of Ohio
Ulysses Simpson Grant. great
Civil war. was born at Point Pleas
ant, Clermont county, Ohio, on APP
!ru q, 1922. He was the eldest
child OF Jesse r. Grant, a tanner
and farmer, and Hannah Simpson
Grant. On his fathers side, he was
remotely Of Scottish ancestry, be-
ing a descendant of Matthew Grant
one OF the settlers OF Windsor,
Conn, in 1885, and a man of mucn
importance in the infant colony,
which he served for many years
as surveyor and town clerk. Ulys-
ses' great grandfather, Noah Grant,
held a military commission in the
French and indian war. and his
grandfather also named Moan,
wards emigrating to Pennsylvania,
and from thence to Deerfield, Ohio.
Ulysses was brought up on a farm
about forty miles from Cincinnati,
where he worked on his fathers
farm in summer and attended
school in winter. Jesse Grant, de-
sirous that his SON should have q
better education than he himSen
had had, procured for him in 1889
al appointment to West Point,
where Ulysses in 1S43 graduated
twenty first in a class OF thirty
nine. and was then commissioned
breyet second lieutenant IN the
Fourth Regiment of Infantry sta
toned at Jefferson Barracks, Mo-,
In May, 1874, his regiment was or
Idered to Louisiana, and in Septem-
Der, 1S45. to Texas, to join the
army of General Taylor. In the
Mexican war, Grant took part in
the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca
de Ia Palma, and was present at the
capture of Monterey: "aa
quartermaSter Of his regiment in
iS47; participated in the battles OF
General SCOTS campaign, and foE
his bravery at Molina del Bey, Sep
TENDER 8, 1S47, was made first lieu
tenant, and for his conduct at Cha
pultepec, September Ii, was breVel
ed captain. In the summer Of 184S
his regiment returned, to be sta
toned first at Detroit and then at
Sackett's Harbor. In the same year
he was married to Miss Julia I.
Dent, of st. Louis, who survived
him many years, dying in 1902.
Was Commissioned Captain
In 1852 he accompanied his regi-
ment to California and Oregon, and
on August 5, 1858, was commits
stoned full captain; but on July 81.
1854, he resigned and removed to,
the neighborhood of Saint Louis.
Mo-, where he cultivated a farm
and engaged in the real estate bus
mess. He was living in Galena, ILL.,,
when the Civil war. He immediate
Iy recruited and drilled company
of Galena volunteers, and accom-
panied them TO Springfield; where
he was employed in the Adjutant-
Generals department as a muster
in the ranks was rapid until he was
made a major general of volunteers
and by a play upon his initials he
became widely known as "Uncon-
diuonal Surrender Grant" On April
2, 1865, Petersburg was abandoned,
and on April 5, the Federal forces
entered the Southern capital, the
Confederates fleeing as they ad-
vanced. Grant pursued the flying
army, overlook and surrounded it,
and forced it to surrender at Apo
mattox court house, on April 9.
Lee was capture and the Confeder
acy overthrow.
General Grant bore a loyal ana
honorable part in the excitement or
the period of reconstruction, con
gress had created for him the rank
of general of the army. On May
nominated him for the presidency.
Two hundred and fourteen electoral
votes were cast for Grant, while
his opponent Governor Horation
Seymour. received only eighty. The
new administration was marked by
q studied independence of congress
sional politicians an by a disregard
of various political traditions of the
national government. The presi-
dent made foreign relations an i'm
portant feature OF his first admin
istration by his persistent efforts
in favor OF the annexation of Santo
Domingo, the treaty for which,
however, was rejected by the sen.
ate At the close of his second
term, in 1877, he made the tour OF
the whole civilized. world, visiting
especially the great countries OF
a soldier and civilian and the first
citizen of the United States, ALI the
honor which rulers and people
could bestow.
Wrote His Memoirs
After his long journey General
Grant made his home in New York
He became a partner in financial
firm which came to grief and in
volved him in pecuniary ruin. Ey-