Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1891 — GEN. GRANT’S OLD HOME. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GEN. GRANT’S OLD HOME.

An Historic Bello t > Be Exhibited at tb« World’s Fair. The historic log cabin in St. Louis County, Mo., which the late Gen. Grant erected with his own hands, and with logs cut and hewn by himself, is about to be removed from its present site and shipped to Chicago, where it will be re-erected for exhibition at the World’s Fair. The cabin, says Frank Leslie's Newspaper, stands on an eighty-acre tract of land, on the Jefferson Barracks and Hock Hill road, about ten miles southwest of St. Louis. -The land was given to Mrs. Grant as a wedding pie3ent by her father, Mr. Frederick T. Dent, on the occasion of her marriage to the General, then Lieutenant Grant, Aug. 22, 1848. The cabiu was erected in the fall of 1854, just after Grant’s return from the Pa-

cific coast, and he lived there in comparative poverty for some years. The house, which is in a good state of preservation, is fifty feet long and twenty feet wide, and is divided into four large rooms, two on each floor, separated by an eight-foot hall in the center of the house, with a broad

staircase leading from the lower to the upper story. The two lower rooms have each a spacious old-fashioned fire-place, and each is lighted by two large windows. All of Grant’s children, except the two eldest, were bora in this cabin.