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When Ulysses Jr. was back on his feet financially, he bought Merryweather Farm in Salem Center, Westchester County, New York. His wife's health failing, Grant's mother suggested moving to California since his younger brother, Jesse Root Grant, was already living in San Diego. The Grants moved into a three-story house in San Diego in 1893.
Grant Cottage State Historic Site is an Adirondack mountain cottage on the slope of Mount McGregor in the town of Moreau, New York. Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, died of throat cancer at the cottage on July 23, 1885.
Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; [a] April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. In 1865, as commanding general, Grant led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War. Grant was born in Ohio and graduated from the United States Military Academy (West
Ulysses S. Grant: 5 ft 8 in 173 cm: Horace Greeley [70] 5 ft 10 in 178 cm: 2 in 5 cm 1868: Ulysses S. Grant: 5 ft 8 in 173 cm: Horatio Seymour [h] 1864: Abraham Lincoln: 6 ft 4 in 193 cm: George B. McClellan [72] 5 ft 8 in 173 cm: 8 in 20 cm 1860: Abraham Lincoln: 6 ft 4 in 193 cm: Stephen A. Douglas [73] John C. Breckinridge [74] 5 ft 4 in 6 ...
The site, also known as White Haven, commemorates the life, military career and presidency of Ulysses S. Grant. Five historic structures are preserved at the site, including the childhood home of Ulysses' wife, Julia Dent Grant. White Haven was an 850-acre plantation worked by enslaved people; Grant supervised their forced labor from 1854 to ...
Ulysses S. Grant's standing among the presidents has improved in recent years, with critically acclaimed biographies by Ron Chernow and others offering a new perspective on his time in the White ...
Ronald Cedric "Ron" White Jr. (born May 22, 1939) is an American historian, author, and lecturer. [1] He has written bestselling and award-winning biographies of Abraham Lincoln [2] and Ulysses S. Grant, as well as three other books on Lincoln and a biography of Joshua Chamberlain. He is a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum.
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