page_title: Ulysses, Kansas
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Ulysses, Kansas / History
caption_attribution_description: Hotel Edwards, in New Ulysses, Kansas, after the whole town moved with the buildings in 1909 running from public debt.
context_page_description: Ulysses is a city in and the county seat of Grant County, Kansas, United States. It is named after Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States. In 2010, 6,161 people lived there.
context_section_description: In 1831, south of the future site of Ulysses, Kansas, (at that time, it was a part of Northern Mexico Territory), explorer Jedediah Smith was killed by Comanche warriors. This was on May 27, 1831.  The first Ulysses town was created in June 1885. It was about two miles east of present-day Ulysses. About six weeks later Ulysses' first newspaper, The Grant County Register, started publishing.
caption: Hotel Edwards, in New Ulysses, after town was moved in 1909
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