Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1885 — ULYSSES S. GRANT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ULYSSES S. GRANT.

Celebrating the Sixty-third Anniversary of the Great Commanders Birth. .4, G ‘4 Gen. U. 8. Grant was sixty-three years old on Monday, the 27th of April, and the anniversary of his birth was celebrated in many cities and informally observed throughout the country. Flags were displayed, and cannon boomed as when the people celebrated his great victories during

the war, or when they gathered in great crowds to welcome him on his return from his trip around the world. Thousands of congratulatory messages were sent to tbe old commander, and his name was on all lips. The event was quietly observed by the family of the stricken General at their home in New York. Gen. Grant's faintly. It is a curious fact that the General and his wife, formerly Miss Dent, never lost a child. Of the four that bless their union all are alive, and have been with him throughout his dangerous illness. They are Col. Fred Dent Grant, aged 31: U. 8. Grant, Jr., commonly known as “Buck” Grant, 31; Nellie (Mrs; Sartoris), 28; and Jesse Grant, youngest, who is but 24. All of the- children married, and all have children. Col. Fred Grant mirried Miss Ida Honors, of Chicago, in. 1874 or 1875. They have two lovely children, a little girl of 5, Julia, and a little boy, who bears the name of his grandfather, U. S. Grant. Ulysses S., Jr., married, in 1881, Miss Chaffee, a daughter of the Senator. They have two children, one a boy and the other a girl. Jesse R. Grant married Miss Chapman, of San Francisco, within three months of the marriage of his brother, U. Si, Jr., to Miss Chaffee. Jesse has a charming little daughter about 3 years of age. Mis. Sartoris has three children—the eldest, a boy of 9, is named Algernon after his father. The other children are a little girl of 5 and the “baby,” a strong, healthy child, 2 yeara old. The vigorous blood of the Grants asserted itself in the third generation, for they all have the marked physicalattributes of the General’s family