Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1887 — The Cottage at Mount McGregor. [ARTICLE]

The Cottage at Mount McGregor.

Madison (Wis ) Journal. While Gen. Fairchild was in the East recently he paid a visit to Mount McGregor and entered the cottage where Grant died. He says that it is a structure large enough for the accommodation of a good siaed family. It remains in exactly the same condition in which it was when Gen. Grant died. Even the clock stands there with the hands resting on the figures where they were stopped by Col. Fred Grant as soon as he was told that his father was dead. An old candle, partly burned down, is also to be seen resting on a stand beside the bed —the last light that Gen. Grant blew out before he died. The inrqitura stands around as it was when Grant was there—everything the saipe. A special endeavor has been made "to keep things undistured, and. there they are to day, just as the eyes of the greatGeneral gazed upon .them for the last time. 1