Grant, Jesse Root, 1858-1934
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Noble E. Dawson papers
Collection
Identifier: USGPL-NED
Scope and Content Note
The Noble E. Dawson papers contains correspondence, transcripts, scrapbooks, ephemera, and photographs related to Dawson's position and a transcriber and stenographer for Ulysses S. Grant as Grant was writing his Personal Memoirs. The collection contains correspondence with many members of the Grant family, including Fred Grant, Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., Nellie Grant, and Jesse Grant. It also includes correspondence with Robert Todd Lincoln, sculptor Karl Gerhardt, General Grenville Dodge, and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1860 - 1920
Found in:
Ulysses S. Grant Collection
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Noble E. Dawson papers
Chapman Grant papers
Collection
Identifier: USGPL-CG
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains photographs, correspondence, clippings, and ephemera from scrapbooks made by Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant, Jesse R. Grant, Chapman Grant, and their friends and family. This collection also includes the twenty-three family scrapbooks, with items ranging from the second half of the nineteenth century to the 1970s. Items of interest include military documents, memoranda, and correspondence from Chapman Grant’s service in the United States Army and his professional...
Dates:
1859 - 1977; Majority of material found within 1885 - 1940
Found in:
Ulysses S. Grant Collection
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Chapman Grant papers
Jesse R. Grant and Elizabeth Chapman Grant papers
Collection
Identifier: USGPL-JRGECG
Scope and Content Note
The Jesse R. Grant (JRG) and Elizabeth Chapman Grant (ECG) papers consists of correspondence from the son and daughter-in-law of President Ulysses S. Grant. The correspondence covers the period from 1880-1910 and focuses on the loss of President Grant's fortune in the Ferdinand Ward scandal, President Grant's death, the publication of Grant's memoirs, the sculpting of his death mask, and Jesse and Elizabeth’s (Lizzie or Babs) correspondence with their family members on both the Grant and...
Dates:
1880 - 1910
Ulysses S. Grant and Julia Dent Grant papers
Collection
Identifier: USGPL-USGJDG
Scope and Content Note
This collection consists of thirteen boxes of correspondence, ephemera, photographs, and scrapbooks related to Ulysses S. Grant, Julia Dent Grant, their acquaintances, and family members. It is arranged in three series: Correspondence and Ephemera; Photographs, and Scrapbooks. The first two series have additional Sub-Series that break the material down into specific types which are then arranged either chronologically or alphabetically by topic.Correspondents in this collection...
Dates:
1822 - 2011