The Grant Family-The Orphan Boy-Home and Birth of Ulysses-How he got his Name-His School Days-Don't know what Can't means.
BOUT two hundred and fifty years ago, two broth. ers, by the name of Grant, came from Scotland to the wilderness of the New World. The grand. father of Ulysses settled in Pennsylvania. His son, Jesse R. Grant, was born in Westmoreland County, January, 1794. With his father's family he went to the great and distant valley of the West, in the spring of 1799,-sixteen years after the war of the Revolution closed. There were no canals or railroads then. The usual mode of emigration was to carry the family and household goods in the canvas-covered wagon. The toilsome journey was made along rough roads, through dark forests, and across rapid streams. At length the bruised and soiled vehicle which carried his earthly possessions stopped in Ohio. Not a single State had been formed out of the extensive region called the Northwestern Territory, lying between the Alleghany and Rocky Mountains. It was at one time claimed by the