Report of the reunion of the Grant family association at the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ulysses Simpson Grant in Washington, , April 27, 1922, and of the exercises at New York city and Point Pleasant, Ohio . nd had a purity of character which inspired his Army. Quickness of per-ception, marvelous self-control, prudence, self-poise, power of decision andindomitable determination characterized him. In 1866 Grant was advanced to the grade of full General. In 1868 he waselected President, and reelected in 1872. The adoption of the FifteenthAmendment and peaceful settl
Report of the reunion of the Grant family association at the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ulysses Simpson Grant in Washington, , April 27, 1922, and of the exercises at New York city and Point Pleasant, Ohio . nd had a purity of character which inspired his Army. Quickness of per-ception, marvelous self-control, prudence, self-poise, power of decision andindomitable determination characterized him. In 1866 Grant was advanced to the grade of full General. In 1868 he waselected President, and reelected in 1872. The adoption of the FifteenthAmendment and peaceful settlement of the Alabama Claims were amongthe most important events of his administration. After retiring from thePresidency, General Grant spent two years in foreign travel, receiving unusualattentions from the rulers of the countries he visited. In 1884 General Grant became stricken with a fatal illness in his throat,in the course of which he nevertheless wrote his Personal Memoirs, com-pleting his literary labors only four days before his death at Mount McGregor,New York, July 23, 1885. His remains were taken to New York City, wherethey were placed to rest in the tomb erected to his memory in Riverside Park,overlooking the PERSPECTIVE OF PROPOSED UNION SQUARE WEST OF THE CAPITOL GROUNDS AND HEAD OF THE MALL DEVELOPMENT. ACCORDING TO THE PLAN OF 1901, WITH THE GRANT MEMORIAL AS THE CENTRAL MOTIF COMMITTEE FOR THE RECEPTION OF GUESTSAT THE EXERCISES FREDERICK D. OWEN, ChairmanCHARLES LEE COOK, Aide Franklin AdamsPaul BrockettWm. V. Cox W. F. DiSMER Selden Marvin Ely A. A. FendersonF. W. GrahamSamuel HerrickDr. Edward A, HillJohn J. Johnson Lt. Comdr. LewisP. Clephane,Maj. John J. Carmody, U. S. ARev. Wm. Taylor Snyder LightfootCapt. O. C. LuxfordEarl G. MarshHenry W. SamsonDr. Wm. D. WirtU. S. N. Detail of officers of the Washington High School Cadets,Col. Wallace M. Cragie, Commanding, as ushers. A detail of U. S. Marines from the Washington Barracksassisting as
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