Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1889 — THE LATE GENERAL GRANT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE LATE GENERAL GRANT.

Instances of His Wonderful Memory.

E2BN his recently JUT published recolIgij lections of GenuJgLeral Grant, Mr. W. Childs \ relates the folg, flowing incidents gSr illustrative of the General’s extraordinary memory for faces and names: “They came tc

my lioitse and we walked across the lawn to the General’s. He sat on the piazza and could not stand alone, but was on his crutches, and was presented to every one of them, shaking hands with each one. He woxxld say to one gentleman, ‘How are you, Professor? I met you in Liverpool;’ and to another, ‘Wliv, how are yoxi? I met you in London;’ and ‘I am glad to see you; 1 met you‘in Manchester.’ So lie recognized each of these visitoi-s as soon as he laid eyes on them, and they said tc

me aftei-Avard, ‘Why, I only met him casually once with a party of people.’ “This poAver of recognition was remarkable. I asked him afterAvard Avhether he had lost the poAver. He ansAvered: ‘No, I have not lost the poAver. If I fix my mind on a person I never forget him; but I see so many I don’t ahvays do it.’ I can illustrate an instance of his memory of persons. During one of the times he Avas staying with me in Philadelphia we were walking doAvn Chestnut street together, and in front of a large jeweler’s establishment a lady came out of the store and Avas entering her carriage. General Grant walked up to her, shook hands Avith her, and put her into the carriage. ‘General, did you knoAV that lady?’ 'Oh, yes,’ he replied, ‘I know her.’ ‘Where did you see her ?’ ‘Well, I saw her a good many years ago out in Ohio at a boarding school. She was one of the girls there.’ ‘Did you never see her before or since?’ He said ‘No.’ The lady asis the daughter of a very prominent Ohio man, Judge Jewett, and the next time she saAv me she said: ‘I suppose you told General Grant who I Avas.’ I said I did not. ‘Why, that is very remarkable,’ she answered, in a surprised tone; ‘I Avas only one of two or three hundred girls and I only saAv him at school. I have never seen him 3ince.’ ”