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Grant was born with a frontier family. He lived in a two-room cabin in Point Pleasent, Ohio. His dad's name was Jesse Root Grant. He was a tanner. He mom's name was Hannah Simpson Grant. She was a hard-working frontier woman. When he was one, his family moved to Georgetown, Ohio. He grew up and went to school there. Later he went to Presbyterian Academy in Ripley, Ohio. He worked on his dad's farm. When he went to college he went to West Point. Here is where they mixed up his first and middle names. They After college, he was asked to guide the Union forces in the Civil War. His troops defeated Lee and the rest of the south. Later he became a congressman. People still remembered him as a great war hero and voted him president. Grant was the eighteenth president. His wife, the first lady, Julia Dent Grant was a shy and young first lady. |
