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I am a 5th cousin, 4 times removed, to President Grant - our common ancestors are Samuel Grant and Mary Porter.

Grant was baptized Hiram Ulysses. He is buried in New York City. Married at St. Louis Mo, 22 Aug 1848, to Julia Boggs Dent.

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He graduated from the U. S. Military Academy in 1843; brevet 2nd Lieutenant 4th U. S. Infantry in 1843, 2nd Lieutenant in 1845, Quartermaster in 1847, 1st Lieutenant in 1847, brevet Captain in 1848, Captain in 1853; resigned in 1854, and engaged in farming near St. Louis; removed to St. Louis in 1858, and engaged in real estate business; removed in 1860 to Galena, Ill., and became clerk in his father's wholesale leather store; Colonel on the staff of Governor Yates in 1861, Colonel of 21st Ill. Volunteer Infantry on June 17, 1861; Brigadier General of Volunteers on Aug. 23, 1861, Major General on Feb. 16, 1862; Major General U. S. A. in July 1863, Lieutenant General on March 2, 1864 (the rank having been revived for him), General on July 25, 1866 (the rank having been created for him); secretary of War ad interim 1867-68; President of the United States, 1869-77; removed in 1880 to New York City and became a partner in the banking firm of Grant and Ward; president of the Mexican Southern Railroad; author of "Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant." To record adequately his life and deeds would be to write the history of this nation for a score of years, a labor that is beyond the capacity of this work. For an insight into the man himself, his own memoirs should be read, in which he stands revealed in heroic simplicity of character. The honors that were conferred upon him, such as has been the lot of no other to receive, were worn without ostentation or arrogance, nor did them make him forgetful of the merits and services of others. And we may recall with satisfaction that the quiet tenacity of purpose, which was the keystone of his military success, is the trait that has been dominant in the family as far back as we can trace its history.

(from The Grant Family Magazine Supplementary to the Grant Family History, ed. by Arthur Hastings Grant, Feb. 1900-Dec. 1910, p. 599) The rank of General was not created for him, as stated on p. 142, but was revived for him; he was, however, the first to hold the rank, for Washington, for whom it was created in 1799, died before it was conferred upon him.

Birth	27 Apr 1822	Point Pleasant, Ohio
Death	23 Jul 1885	Mount McGregor, New York

Father	Jesse Root Grant (1794 - 1873)
Mother	Hannah Simpson (1798 - 1883)