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Colonel Dent was a farmer in St. Louis County. He owned 925 acres along Gravois Creek, 10 miles southwest of the city, and owned slaves to farm the land. Five miles from the Dent farm was Jefferson Barracks, where Ulysses S. Grant was assigned in 1843, after attending West Point and rooming with Julia Dent's brother. [ 2 ]
The Hunts sold the Gravois property to Frederick Dent in 1820, for the sum of $6,000 (~$180,251 in 2023). Naming the property "White Haven" after his family home in Maryland, Colonel Dent considered himself a Southern gentleman with enslaved people whom he could force to do the farmwork. By the 1850s, 18 people were enslaved at White Haven. [4]
Dent was born on December 17, 1820, in White Haven, St. Louis County, Missouri. He was the son of Frederick Fayette Dent (1787–1873) and Ellen Bray (née Wrenshall) Dent (1793–1857). [1] He graduated from West Point in 1843. One of Dent's classmates was Ulysses S. Grant, who married Dent's sister Julia.
Nellie Grant lived in a log cabin, built by her father Ulysses S. Grant the first two years of her life.. Nellie Grant was born on July 4, 1855, in Wistonwisch, Missouri, near St. Louis, on the estate slave plantation of Col. Frederick Dent, known as White Haven. [1]
Julia Boggs Dent was born on January 26, 1826, at White Haven plantation west of St. Louis, Missouri. [2] [3] Her parents were Frederick Dent (1787–1873), a planter and merchant, and Ellen Wrenshall Dent. [2] Frederick enslaved about 30 Africans, whom he freed only when compelled by law, having previously resisted moral arguments against ...
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Together, Frederick and Ida Marie were the parents of two children: Julia Dent Grant 1876–1975, born and died in Washington, D.C. Ulysses III 1881–1968, born in Chicago, died in Clinton, NY; The birth of Ulysses III resulted in his mother's invalidism for an extended period of time and caused lifelong health issues. [citation needed]
Eventually, the business was doing so well that Colonel Sanders constructed a new building on the property to give the company more space. At the time, the new building housed offices and ...