Hiram Ulysses Grant was born April 27th, 1822, in Point Pleasant of Ohio. His parents were named Jesse R. Grant and Hannah Simpson Grant. His parents had no idea what to call him, so they took a hat and a bunch of names on paper and drew out the name Ulysses. It was the name of a warrior that lived long ago. Grant was the oldest of his six siblings—two brothers and three sisters. His dad would always brag about him. When he was a single year old, his family moved to Georgetown to seek a larger house. Georgetown was still in Ohio. At a young age, Ulysses adored horses. When he was five, he could stand up when riding on a horse! But his childhood was not all free time—he did plenty of chores as a kid. His father owned a tannery. It was where…show more content… Grant once saw a horse he wanted to purchase. His father handed over $25 and told grant to tell the horse’s owner if he would take twenty. If he didn’t take it, he would tell the owner he would pay twenty-two dollars fifty cents. And if the owner still wouldn’t sell the horse, he would offer the full twenty-five dollars. But Grant blurted out what his father said when going to make the purchase, and the owner, of course, took twenty-five dollars. He was embarrassed about it for a long time. His school was a one-room schoolhouse, as most were. He was great at math. Jesse, his father, planned on sending him to college. But he didn’t have the money. The army offered a free college education if he would join the army after graduation. And Jesse excepted it, without taking into consideration how his son…show more content… Grant to a Ford Theater show. But Julia, Grant’s wife, did not enjoy the company of Lincoln’s wife, Mary Lincoln. She was weird. Grant declined and headed to Philadelphia with his wife and one of his sons, Jesse. When he arrived, a person came to Grant and told him that Abraham Lincoln had been shot at Ford’s theater. He took the train back to Washington. His murderer, John Wilkes Booth, had planned on killing Ulysses S. Grant at the theater, too. He was a Southerner and was furious about the South losing the war. He had escaped through his wellknown theater. After all, he was an actor, and he knew the theater well. Abraham Lincoln was dead by the time Ulysses S. Grant got there.
John Wilkes Booth thought he was a hero. But the country fell into a state of mourning. Grant always regretted not being there to save him. Andrew Johnson took Lincoln’s place. He didn’t have good leadership. Some people decided to buy Grant a house. He got three. His high rank in the army got him $21,000 per year. America was coming back together, and they wanted Grant president. He knew that he would get a lot of money as president, but he would no longer be an army general. After his president days, he would no longer get money as president—or as
