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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.
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 ]
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] Her father was Mexican–American War veteran Ulysses S. Grant and her mother was Julia Dent Grant , the daughter of Col. Dent.
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 ...
Julia Dent Grant Cantacuzène Speransky, [needs IPA] Princess Cantacuzène, Countess Speransky (June 6, 1876 – October 4, 1975), was an American author and historian. She was the eldest child of Frederick Dent Grant and his wife Ida Marie Honoré , and the second grandchild of Ulysses S. Grant , the 18th President of the United States .
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Frederick Dent Grant at a Military Tournament, Toledo, Ohio, 1909. Frederick Dent Grant (May 30, 1850 – April 12, 1912) [1] was a soldier and United States minister to Austria-Hungary. Grant was the first son of General and President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant and Julia Grant. He was named after his uncle, Frederick Tracy Dent.