Julia Grant with daughter Nellie, son Jesse, and her father Frederick Dent
"Nellie" Ellen Wrenshall Grant (July 4, 1855 - August 30, 1922), was the third child and only daughter of General of the Army and President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant and First Lady Julia Grant.
Biography
She was first named Julia, at the insistence of her father, but was christened Ellen at eighteen months to honor her dying grandmother.[1]
She married Englishman Algernon Charles Frederick Sartoris (August 1, 1851-February 3, 1893), the son of opera singer Adelaide Kemble and nephew of noted actress and anti-slavery activist Fanny Kemble, on May 21, 1874 in the East Room of the White House. [1] She married again, this time to Frank Hatch Jones (d. August 30, 1922) on July 4, 1912.
References
- ^ Garland, Hamlin, Ulysses S. Grant: His Life and Character, Macmillan Company, 1898.
- Catton, Bruce, Grant Takes Command, Little, Brown and Company, 1968, Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 69-12632.
- Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
- Garland, Hamlin, Ulysses S. Grant: His Life and Character, Macmillan Company, 1898.
- Grant, Ulysses S., Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885–86, ISBN 0-914427-67-9.
- Hesseltine, William B., Ulysses S. Grant: Politician 1935.
- Lewis, Lloyd, Captain Sam Grant, Little, Brown, and Co., 1950, ISBN 0-316-52348-8.
- McFeely, William S., Grant: A Biography, W. W. Norton & Co, 1981, ISBN 0-393-01372-3.
- McPherson, James M., Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States), Oxford University Press, 1988, ISBN 0-19-503863-0.
- Simpson, Brooks D., Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865, Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ISBN 0-395-65994-9.
- Smith, Jean Edward, Grant, Simon and Shuster, 2001, ISBN 0-684-84927-5.
- Woodworth, Steven E., Nothing but Victory: The Army of the Tennessee, 1861 – 1865, Alfred A. Knopf, 2005, ISBN 0-375-41218-2.
- Official Ulysses Simpson Grant biography from the US Army Center for Military History
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