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Ulysses Hiram Grant was born April 27, 1822, in a two room frame house at Point
Pleasant, Ohio. His father, Jesse Root Grant, was foreman in a tannery and a farmer. His
mother, Hannah Simpson Grant, was a hard working frontier woman. When Ulysses was a
year old, the family moved to Georgetown. There his father bought a farm, built a house,
and set up his own tannery. Jesse and Hannah had five more children there, two boys and
three girls. Grant love horses and learned to manage them at an early age. When he was
seven or eight he could drive a team and began hauling all the wood used in the house and
shops. From that point on until he reached seventeen, Grant did all the work done with
horses; such as breaking up the land, furrowing, plowing corn, bringing in the crops when
harvested, and hauling wood. Three months each winter when work was minimized Grant
went to a one room schoolhouse, and that's how he was educated until he went to West
Point at age seventeen.
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