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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.
A man from Sydney, Australia, had to cope with his marriage ending after just two years when his wife left him for a close friend. Another (non-cheating) friend suggested that he sell her wedding ...
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 ...
In The Crown, the Queen ultimately decides not to abdicate (shocker) and her speech at Charles and Camilla's wedding is short, funny, and sweet. In real life, the Queen did in fact discuss her ...
A piece of American history is changing hands in Washington, D.C.’s Dupont Circle neighborhood.The 1875 town house where civil rights pioneer Frederick Douglass married his second wife, Helen ...
Frederick Dent may refer to: Frederick B. Dent (1922–2019), United States Secretary of Commerce; Frederick Tracy Dent (1820–1892), American general