Identifier: centurybookoffam00broo2 (find matches)
Title: The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902
Subjects: Historic buildings -- United States United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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bout Uncle Tom inthe comfortable entresol of their hotel, and listened as he outlined for themthe story of Ulysses Simpson Grant. He was an Ohio boy, Uncle Tom began, born at Point Pleasant, onthe banks of the Ohio River, not far from Cincinnati. His boyhood andyouth were uneventful. He got the appointment to West Point by acci-dent, and went there against his will. After his graduation he was sta-tioned at Jefferson Barracks-- the pleasant military post we visited thismorning, ten miles below St. Louis. He served through the Mexican war,came back a captain, married a St. Louis girl, and went to farming a littleways out of town. He had a hard time of it. His farming was not profit-able. He tried real estate and bill-collecting with no better success, andfinally went to Galena, in the northwestern corner of Illinois, and clerked.it in his fathers tannery. There he lived unnoticed and unknown untilthe war came. He tried to get an army appointment, but could not; but at ,, - ^tt . fi^.^i
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BIRTHPLACE OF GENERAL GRANT, POINT PLEASANT, OHIO. BESIDE THE MISSISSIPPI 83

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