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Rh tration. She received royalty and the most illustrious of our country with such genuine hospitality and graciousness as to avoid all criticisms and to win universal admiration. For eight years she was the first Lady in the Land, and it can be claimed that she made no enemies and was much beloved for her goodness of heart and sympathetic disposition.

At the close of General Grant's administration, in their journey around the world, they were received by the crowned heads of every country, and Mrs. Grant was universally admired for the simplicity of her manner and sincerity of her greeting. Her absolute devotion to her husband and children has left an example worthy of emulation. Her faithful vigilance during General Grant's long illness is especially to be admired. Weary of excitement and of being in the public eye, her children being married and away from her, she sought the National Capital for a home in which to spend her declining years. She received the continued respect and loving thought of the Nation to the day of her death in 1902. Her remains rest beside her husband's in the tomb on Riverside Drive, New York.

Lucy Webb Hayes was born in Chillicothe, when it was the capital of Ohio. She was the daughter of Dr. James Webb and the granddaughter of Dr. Isaac Cook. The Webbs were natives of North Carolina. Her father died of cholera in 1833, in Lexington, Kentucky, where he had gone to complete the arrangements for sending slaves, whom his father and himself had set free, to Liberia. After the death of her father her mother removed to Delaware, Ohio, in order to be near the Western University, where her sons were educated. Mrs. Hayes pursued her studies and recited with her brothers to