Ohio History Journal

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CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF

CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF

ULYSSES S. GRANT

 

 

BY C. B. GALBREATH

 

CELEBRATION AT POINT PLEASANT, CLERMONT

COUNTY, OHIO

Of all citizens of the United States, born in Ohio,

the most famous in his day and generation, as Judge

Hugh L. Nichols has observed, was General Ulysses S.

Grant. That he still holds that high place among the

distinguished sons that Ohio has given to the Republic

and the world was attested by the outpouring of people

to celebrate the centennial anniversary of his birth and

by the tributes that on three successive days fell from

the lips of Ohio's most eminent official representatives

who came from the nation's capitol to speak on this oc-

casion.

The weather, which was cool and threatening on the

morning of Thursday, April 27, 1922, the first day of

the celebration, gradually settled and the two succeed-

ing days were almost cloudless.  The program care-

fully planned by Judge Nichols and his associates on

the Centenary committee was successfully carried out

without change except that occasioned by the absence

of Governor Davis who was prevented by illness from

attending.  Among the distinguished persons present

was the widow of General Fred D. Grant, who is the

mother of Major Ulysses S. Grant III and the Countess

(221)