Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . practice of law inBoston. Mr. Grant has written some clever verseand several novels. His published works include The Little Tin Gods on Wheels, a satire in verse(Cambridge, 1879); The Confessions of a Frivo-lous Girl (Boston, 1880): The Lambs (1882); Yankee Doodle, a * B K poem delivered at Har-vard (1883); An Average Man, contributed origi-nally as a serial to the Century magazine (1883);The Kings Men, with others (New York, 1884);The Knave of Hearts (Boston, 1885); A Ro-mantic Young Lady (1886); Face to Face(New York, 1886); and a poem on the 250
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . practice of law inBoston. Mr. Grant has written some clever verseand several novels. His published works include The Little Tin Gods on Wheels, a satire in verse(Cambridge, 1879); The Confessions of a Frivo-lous Girl (Boston, 1880): The Lambs (1882); Yankee Doodle, a * B K poem delivered at Har-vard (1883); An Average Man, contributed origi-nally as a serial to the Century magazine (1883);The Kings Men, with others (New York, 1884);The Knave of Hearts (Boston, 1885); A Ro-mantic Young Lady (1886); Face to Face(New York, 1886); and a poem on the 250th anni-versary of the Boston Latin - school, which waspublished with other exercises under the title of The Oldest School in America (Boston, 1885). GRANT GRANT 709 GRANT, Ulysses S., eighteenth president of the United States, b. at Point Pleasant, Clermontco., Ohio, 27 April, 1822; d. on Mount McGreg-or, near Saratoga, N. Y., 23 July, 1885. (Seethe accompanying view of Grants birthplace.) Hewas of Scottish ancestry, but his family had been. American in all its branches for eight was a descendant of Matthew Grant, who ar-rived at Dorchester, Mass., in May, 1630. Hisfather was Jesse R. Grant, and his mother HannahSimpson. They were married in June, 1821, inClermont county, Ohio. Ulysses, the oldest of sixchildren, spent his boyhood in assisting his fatheron the farm, a work more congenial to his tastesthan working in the tannery of which his fatherwas proprietor. He attended the village school,and in the spring of 1839 was appointed to a ca-detship in the U. S. military academy by ThomasL. Hamer, M. C. The name given him at birthwas Hiram Ulysses, but he was always called byhis middle name. Mr. Hamer, thinking this hisfirst name, and that his middle name was probablythat of his mothers family, inserted in the officialappointment the name of Ulysses S. The officialsat West Point were notified by Cadet Grant of theerror, but they did not feel authorized to correct
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