Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1929-04-25

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and heavy-soled, also evidently homemade In
hating hashfu manner he made known his de-
sire for room and when the proprietor OF the
hotel pushed across the desk the ruled sheet Oh
paper which served register. the AWKWARD
youth scrawled on it the name u H. Grant,
Georgetown, Ohio
It is doubtful If the hotel proprietor gave him
a second glance as he assigned him TO room
D-32 for the arrival Of such youngsters at MS
hotel preparatory to their entrance into the mill
tary academy, was novelty to him. II any
thing he must have remarked IN his own mihd
that this rustic lad was even more unnromsing
material from which "oiicer and gentleman
was to be made than the average youth VINO came
ia the Point Certainly he could not have real
tzed that he was witness to the beginning or
military career OF man who was to he the VIC
tor In the greatest civil war the world had ever
known and whom future generations were 10 nan
MS one Of the great captains Of all times For TINS
shy youth was the future Gen. Ulysses $. Grant,
whose memory Americans honor ON April - OF
each year, the anniversary or his BIRTH
cadet U. f. Grant, and Gen. Ulysses :
Grant'-how did one become the other9 inns
inconsistency In his name Is one or the many 10
the naradoxica career of the man. From the be-
ginning It seemed there were to be many mixups
In his name On April q. 1922, a son. the first
horn of Jesse Grant and Hannah Simpson Grant,
arrived In their home at Point Pleasant, small
town on the Ohio river, Is miles east OF Cincln-
natl History has recorded that for SIX weeks
this first born waS without name because MS
parents could not. agree upon one. Finally II
was decided to let chance decide the question,
SO the assembled relatives and friends took Slips
Of paper. wrote their choices upon them and
gomebody drew one. That name was Ulysses and
the person who had written 1t was Grandmother
Simpson Later-enohody knows who-tacked
Hiram on In front of Ulysses, evidently believing
that this virile Biblical name Gil means most
noblc') was more appropriate for the son OF
nioneer than was the Greek Ulysses lit means "a
hater) BHt little Hiram Ulysses mott or pre-
ferred the second part OF the name, which she
called "I.yss" for short and as Lyss Grant he
started out lin life
When Lyss was a year old the family moved
to Georgetown, Ohio. and there tile boy grew UP
into bashfns youth who was looked upon by the
other bows as something of a duard and d weak
ling. So perhaps 1t was inevitable that he was
10 be known Ia Georgetown Useless tTnnt
When he rea he'd the age of seventeen his IN
Their finding that the hoy had no desire TO follow
In his footsteps as tanner decided to Try 10 gel
him appointed to West Point He took the mat
Ter up with the congressman OF his district
Thomas l.. Hsmer, and Hamer made the appoint
ment. AT this point another name was tacket
TO the UIf0Ft UIlHle Whit lidHGi hhe' -
name was Ulysses but could cot remember VIVA
his other name was Remembering, however, tina
Jesse Grant had married Hannah Simpson, ~
wrote out the name Ulysses Simpson Grant ant
sent 1t to the War department MS his choice 70
vacancy ut West Point.
When young Grant got ready to start for Yves
Point the village carpenter made trunk for mr.
and, as finishing touch put on II In brass tack
the initials H. r. G. flor Hiram Ulysses Grant,
When Grant saw this he Immediately visualize
fine nickname which the cadets would be certnl
"a bestow upon him. useless was bad enough
hut "Eug" would be worse, so he pulled out III
tacks and In order to avoid any possibility or
rsnettIon of that embarrassment he transpose
his two given names So we find him reesie
ting at the -Hete4- AS T. ii. Grant they Nill sho
you that page from the register II you go thel
today.
N -Nshen on May 30 1899, he presented himself
the adiutant Of the military academy and signt
his name In full on the ad1utants register
Ulysses Hiram Grant another difficulty arose. III
adjutant said that he was expecting "ulyss
simpson Grant tthnt Was the work Of Congress
man HaIner) and here was Ulysses Hiram
Grant applying for admission. II was such thin
as this which produced the endless yards OF r
tnpe which have characterized tie work OF I