Excerpt from Life and Services of General U. S. Grant, Conqueror of the Rebellion, and Eighteenth President of the United States
Ulysses, eldest child of Jesse R. and Hannah Grant, was born on the 27th of April, 1822, at Point Pleasant, an obscure town in what was then the far-western State of Ohio. His parents were well-to-do people, furnished with as large a supply of this world"s goods as any of their neighbors, and both able and willing to afford him all the advantages of education then attainable at so great a distance from the Atlantic coast. His father was of direct Scottish lineage, and although the family had been settled in America for nearly two hundred years, the most notable characteristics of the Caledonian race had not disappeared in him, and were transmitted in a remarkable degree of development to his illustrious son. The pertinacity of resolve, the shrewd sagacity, the practical sense, the clear judgment, the sustained energy which are conspicuous in the subject of this pamphlet, are all peculiarities that may be traced to his Scottish origin, modified of course by American influences.
The father had led an active, although not distinguished life. Born in Pennsylvania, and left an orphan at the age of eleven years, he emigrated from one State to another, and finally settled in Ohio. At the time when Ulysses was born, he dealt largely in leather, owning several tanneries. He was noted for intelligence as well as energy, and in all his dealings with men he bore an unblemished name. The mother also was a native of Pennsylvania, but had early removed to the farther West, and was married in the same State where the future general was born. Her maiden name was Simpson. The modest virtues of a Christian woman are not fit themes for public portraiture; but it is not difficult to imagine in them the source of that purity of character and almost child-like simplicity which are so singularly combined in Grant with other and apparently contradictory traits. Irving felicitously says of Washington: "Hereditary rank may be an illusion, but hereditary virtue gives a patent of nobleness beyond all the blazonry of the herald"s college."
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