Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1899 — GRANT-CANTACUZENE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GRANT-CANTACUZENE.

President’s Granddaughter Weds w Russian Nob.'eman,* Miss Julia Dent Grant, daughter of Gen. Frederick D. Grant and granddaughter of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, was married in "X. N e wport, R. 1., MonPrince Mi- /AM J ft. chael Can- \;

tacuzene of Russia. Because of her father’s absence in the Philippines her uncle and her aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer of Chicago, entertain in her honor. 3 Miss Grant i» J about 24 years old, s and a beautiful brujnette. Her future husband, whose

name is his only ungraceful feature, is 25 years of age and is a lieutenant in the Imperial Guards. His family is one of the oldest in Russia and the young prince became the head of his house not long ago by the death of his father. He possesses vast estates to the eastward of Moscow, where he maintains a magnificent chateau. He is said to be unusually talented and a young man of fine character. A member of the house of the prince was the Russian minister to the United States at Washington not many years, ago. The name Centacuzene in Russia dates from the time of the Byzantine Empire, when Constantinople was the capital. It is now a familiar one in BusRia and Roumania. The father of Miss Grant’s fiance was director of the foreign religions to the minister of the interior* as all faiths outside of the Greek Church —the established church of Russia—are included in the administration of the interior department. Prince Cantacuzene* who has also the title of Count Spera nsky, is related on the maternal side to the late Prince Gortschakoff, who, a quarter of a century ago, was the “Grand Old Man of Russia.’’ being grand chancellor of Russia and minister of foreign relations.