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When Jesse Root Grant was born on 23 January 1784, in Greensboro, Orleans, Vermont, United States, his father, Noah Delano Grant III, was 34 and his mother, Rachel Kelly, was 37. He married Hannah Simpson on 29 June 1821, in Point Pleasant, Monroe Township, Clermont, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters.
Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio, the first of six children born to Jesse Root Grant and Hannah Simpson Grant. The Grant family traces its American roots to the earliest days of colonization. Grant’s ancestors, Matthew and Priscilla Grant, came to the Massachusetts colony in 1630 aboard ...
Grant, Jesse R. In the Days of My Father General Grant. New York: Harper, 1925. My father was not a reformer naturally, although he believed things could be made better. He was not exactly conservative either, he always occupied a middle ground. He had no superstitious regard for the past or for things as they were.
Jesse Root Grant, c. 1864 Ulysses Grant then took his family to Galena, Illinois and worked in his father's leather store. Grant might have lived out an obscure existence; but after the election of avowed anti-slavery Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln as president, Southern slaveholding states claimed that the federal Union was dissolved.
Father of US President Ulysses S. Grant. Published in the Piscataquis (ME) Observer 28 Dec 1871 p2: Jesse R. Grant, father of President Grant, was stricken with paralysis Wednesday afternoon. He fell to the floor at Covington post office and remained insensible an hour. He was able to sit up and converse some during...
Oct, 1970 & Jan, 1971. Jesse Root Grant (1794-1873) Grant's father was a partner in a successful tannery. The following remarks were made by Jesse in 1868: Perhaps it was my son's taste for horses and the great pleasure he took in riding and driving that prevented his ever becoming addicted, so much as most boys, to other amusements.
Jesse Root Grant Part 2 (1873-1934) In 1873 Jessie made his first trip west to California, with Willoughby Cole, the son of United States Senator Cornelius Cole. In San Francisco Mrs. Cole told him several children's parties were arranged. The prospect of parties frightened Jesse, a regular trait.
