Ancestry of
Ulysses S. Grant

18th U.S. President

Ulysses Simpson Grant

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Jesse Root Grant 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Simpson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Apr 1822 
  • Birth Location:
  • Point Pleasant, Monroe Twnshp, Clermont, Ohio 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 23 Jul 1885 
  • Death Location:
  • Wilton, Saratoga, New York 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • General Grant National Memorial, Manhattan, New York, New York 
  • Notes: 

  • 18th United States President

    He was born Hiram Ulysses Grant, but later changed it to Ulysses S. Grant. Although he is known today as Ulysses Simpson Grant (Simpson being his mother's maiden name), he is reported to have said that the “S” didn't actually stand for anything.

• Marriages for Ulysses Simpson Grant

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  • Spouse:
  • Julia Boggs Dent
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Aug 1848
  • Marriage Location:
  • White Haven Plantation, St. Louis, Missouri

• Sources for Ulysses Simpson Grant

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/26/2013).
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1975, Vol. 51, pp. 231-241.
  • ³ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #14914, Membership application for Algernon Edward Urban Sartoris.
  • ⁴ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 460-473.
  • ⁵ Marshall, Edward Chauncey, The Ancestry of General Grant, and their Contemporaries, New York: Sheldon and Company (1869), 173.
  • ⁶ Pack, Charles Lathrop, Thomas Hatch of Barnstable and Some of his Descendants: The Descent of Alice Gertrude Hatch and her Husband . . ., Newark, New Jersey: Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Jersey (1930).
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 3.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 438.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 921.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 436, 448, 455, 473.
  • ¹¹ Wikipedia, "Ulysses S. Grant", (accessed 04/26/2013).