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volunteers, April 27, 1864, and brevetted major- general, Oct. 19, 18(34, for his action at the battle of Cedar Creek, in which battle he was in com- mand of the 3d division of the Gtli corps, which included the Vermont brigade. It was this division that checked the advance of Early's army in the morning and alone held it in check for an hour, until ordered back to take a new position. It was this division and Merritt's cav- alry that Sheridan found fighting unsupported when lie came upon the field, and it was on this division that the line was fonned from which the victorious charge was made in the afternoon. After the war he was one of the organizers of the New England loan and trust company and was at the head of that institution for several years. In April, 1890, lie was made assistant secretary of war by President Harrison, which position he resigneil in December, 1893.

GRANT, Robert, author, was born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 24, 1852; eldest son of Patrick and Charlotte Bordman (Rice) Grant. He was a Franklin medal scholar at the Boston Latin school, was graduated from Harvard in 1873, continued his studies there, and received the degree of Ph.D. in 1876andthatof LL.B. in 1879. He settled in Boston to practice law and divided his time between that profession and litera- ture. He became private secretary to Mayor Green of Bos- ton in 1882; was appointed water com- missioner by Ma5-or ^ O'Brien in 1888, and

appointed for a term of three years. In 1893 he became judge of the Suffolk probate court and court of insolvency by appointment of Governor Russell. While an undergraduate at Harvard lie edited the Harvard Advocate and during his law course he edited the Harvard Lampoon. His published writings in elude: The Little Tin Gods on. mieds (1879); jfVie Confessions of a Frivolous Girl (1880); The Lambs (1883); An Averar/e Man (1883); The King's Men in collaboration with others (1884); The Knave of Hearts (188.5); A Romantic Tounrj Lady (1886); Face to Face (1886); Jack Hall, or the School Days of an American Boy (1887); Jaclc in the Hush (1888); The liefections of a Married Man (1893); The Opinions of a rhilosopher (im3); The Art of Livinci (189,')); The Baclirlor's Cliristmas (1895): and Search-Liriht Letters (1899), besides po- ems and prose contributed to various periodicals

GRANT, Ulysses Simpson, eighteenth Presi- dent of the United States, was born at Point Pleasant, Ohio, April 37, 1833; the eldest son of Jesse Root and Hannah (Simpson) Grant; grand- son of Capt. Noah and Rachel (Kelly) Grant, and of John Sinip.son of Montgomery county. Pa.; great-grandson of Noali and Susannali (Delano) Grant, and of John Simpson, an early settler in Penn.sylvania; great" grandson of Noah and Martlia (Huntington) Grant; great' grandson of Samuel and Grace (Miner) Grant; great' grand- son of .Samuel and Mary (Porter) Grant; and greaf* grandson of Matthew and Priscilla Grant who left Plymouth, England on the .sliiii Mary and John landed at Nantasket IMass ami pur- cliased land ot the Indians at East Windsoi Hill, Conn wliHit^tliH spttleiiiHiit uid tile liini re-

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mained the property of the Grant family and in 1900 was occupied by Roswell Grant. In the homestead built in 1697 the descendants of Matthew Grant have lived in peace except for two years during the Revolutionary war, when it was used as a prison for captured British otticers. His fatlier was a tanner and also was the owner of a small farm at Point Pleasant, and Ulysses, preferring farm work and driving horses to work in the tannery, was indulged in his preference, and besides conducting the farm and grinding bark at the tannery, he cared for the horses, did the teaming and carried passengers between the neighboring towns. He attended the subscription school of the village and was sent for the term, 1836-37, to the academy at Maysville, Ky. His father was ambitious to give his eldest son a better education than the neighborhood afforded and as the boy had saved over SlOO of his earnings with which to pay liis entrance fees to some school, he consulted with Ulysses as to his preference and the boy selected the U.S. military academy at West Point. His father wrote to Senator Samuel Morris at Wa.sliington, applying for an appoint- ment, and was referred to Representative Thomas