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    Father of Ulysses S. Grant

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  1. Jesse Root Grant (January 23, 1794 – June 29, 1873) was an American farmer, tanner and successful leather merchant who owned tanneries and leather goods shops in several different states throughout his adult life.

  2. Jesse Root Grant II (February 6, 1858 – June 8, 1934) was an American politician. He was the youngest son of President Ulysses S. Grant and First Lady Julia Grant. He joined the Democratic Party and sought the party nomination for President, running against William Jennings Bryan in 1908. In 1925, he wrote a biography of his father.

  3. Jun 7, 2024 · Jesse Root Grant in Wikipedia. Born, February 6, 1858, at Hardscrabble, near St. Louis. Attended Cornell University, studying engineering. He also attended Columbia Law School. He did not graduate from any college. Married on September 21, 1880, to Elizabeth Chapman. Children: Nellie Grant Cronan, Chapman Grant.

  4. Jesse Root Grant II was the fourth and youngest child of Ulysses and Julia Grant. He was an accomplished mining engineer and lawyer who lived much of his adult life in California. He also attempted to run for President of the United States in 1908.

  5. Aug 15, 2022 · The father of U.S. President Grant, Jesse Root Grant was born 23 Jan 1794 at Greensburg, Pennsylvania. He was the second child of Noah Delano Grant by his second wife Rachel (Miller) Kelly. He moved with his family to Ohio at a young age and served apprenticeships at farms and tanneries during his youth.

  6. Jesse (right) in 1866 with U.S. Grant, Jr. and Nellie. He was a man who had given some thought to religious matters, and had come to the conclusion that they were beyond human solution. And therefore, he bothered himself very little about the question of immortality of the soul and things like that.

  7. Apr 7, 2022 · Ulysses S. Grant’s father, Jesse Root Grant, was a self-made man. He held strong abolitionist views. He provided well for his family, could be publicly outspoken and opinionated, and at times proved exasperating, including for the adult Grant.

  8. Jesse Root Grant (January 23, 1794 – June 29, 1873) was an American farmer, tanner and successful leather merchant who owned tanneries and leather goods shops in several different states throughout his adult life.

  9. Jun 7, 2024 · Jesse Root Grant. Ulysses S. Grant was a devoted family man. He and his wife Julia had four children and were fortunate not to lose any of them to an early death, as was so often in the case in those days of untreatable diseases and lack of medical care we take for granted today.

  10. 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.

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