It wasn’t uncommon for Grant to arrive in a major city and find Badeau’s latest chapter ready for his commentary. He corresponded with General Adam Badeau, his former staff officer who was writing a military history of the Civil War. He wrote to his old Civil War colleagues generals William T. For Grant’s take on things, you have to go to his letters. Young’s account of their travels, eventually collected into two volumes, reads like a gossipy travelog. Grant agreed, understanding the value of keeping his name in the press. James Gordon Bennett, Jr., the publisher of the Herald, was betting Grant’s adventures would make good copy and asked to send Young along. The Grants left Philadelphia in mid May, joined by Jesse, their youngest son, and John Russell Young, a veteran reporter from the New York Herald. Hayes, who’d barely squeaked into the White House, a chance to govern without reporters constantly running to his predecessor for comment. By leaving the country, Grant also believed he would be giving President Rutherford B. He’d turned down the chance to run for a third term. He didn’t have a plantation to run like Andrew Jackson, nor did he want to design buildings or found a university like Thomas Jefferson. The trip also solved the immediate problem of what Grant, a spry man of fifty-five, should do after leaving the White House. After eight years in the White House, with no ancestral home to return to, Grant and his wife, Julia, decided to indulge their wanderlust and take a long-desired tour overseas. See the WorldCat.Liverpool was the first stop on Grant’s two-and-a-half-year trip around the world. This is available in 6 libraries in the United States. Digitized magazine from Hathitrust titled The Pulpit Treasury: an Evangelical Monthly.īook: The Genealogy of Galena: Nineteenth Century Americana, by Lorraine X. Take note that her son instructed the presiding minister that in no way was he to be mentioned in any laudatory manner. Simpson family genealogy as well. From Hathitrust.įuneral service for Hannah Simpson Grant. Genealogies of the Families of the Presidents, by Henry Buchanan.Įxcerpts about Grant's mother, Hannah Simpson Grant, as recorded in Early Records of Simpson Families, by Helen A. The Descendants of the Presidents of the United States, by Walter Lewis Zorn.
There are subsequent volumes for reunions of the Grant Family Association, but I cannot locate any that are digitized.īrief listing of children and grandchildren of U. Report of the First Reunion of the Grant Family Association, 1899, edited by Arthur Hastings Grant. Genealogical information from the Grant Presidential Library.ĭigitized Book: The Ancestry of General Grant and Their Contemporaries, by Edward Chauncey Marshall. You may also email Diane Meives, a person with a longtime interest in Grant genealogy and a willingness to help others with the same interest. Please start with these suggested links and also check with your local public library or historical society for assistance in doing further research. Genealogical research is time consuming, but rewarding. I cannot assist readers in determining if they are related to Grant in any way. Please be advised that the author of this website does not know just exactly how Grant might be related to all of his collateral family.
Here are some links to help you with determining genealogical information about Ulysses S.
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