Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1899 — TWO GRANT MARRIAGES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TWO GRANT MARRIAGES.

Wide Contrasts Between Those of the President and His Granddaughter. When General Grant took unto himself as a bride Miss Julia Dent of St Louis he went to the altar, as it were, straight from the battlefield of Mexico. Then by the orders of the war department he was sent away to other scenes, finally going in 1852 to do soldier duty in California, where the monotony

grew so heavy that the young officer resigned from the army and returned to St. Louis, where whatever he had of a honeymoon was spent He had been unable to take his bride with him to the camps and the barracks of the South and West After his return to St Louis his father-in-law presented him with a small farm, a house and three negroes. The farm was just outside St. Louis. It was in the cabin on this farm that the honeymoon of U. S. Grant was passed. The period had its troubles, though, for the great leader failed to make farming pay and he dabbled in the real estate business in St. Louis as a side issue. Some St Louis historians assert that the bouse in which General Grant was married is still standing in St Louis, but none seem able to point it out But one of the illustrations shows the honeymoon cabin on the Missouri farm. Julia Dent Grant, born in the White House, Washington, has recently become the bride of Prince Cantacuzene

of Russia. The marriage, of which so much has been written, was solemnized in the palace of one of the Astors at Newport which is under lease to Potter Palmer of Chicago. Of course the ceremony was a brilliant one. But after it there was no hurrying away of the bridegroom to battlefields or dreary frontier posts. The honeymoon began In a palace in America and will continue on the vast and beautiful estates of the prince near Moscow.

ASTOR HOUSE, NEWPORT.

U. S. GRANT'S MISSOURI COTTAGE.