Point Pleasant, Ohio
Okay, let's get this straight. His parents named him Hiram Ulysses Grant, but called him Ulysses or Lyss. When he enrolled at West Point, the registrar, for some reason, wrote "Ulysses S. Grant." Grant decided he liked that better, so from then on was "Ulysses S. Grant." You may have heard it as "Ulysses Simpson Grant"; that was not him, that was his son.
Anyway, this little cottage in Point Pleasant, Ohio, a village on the Ohio River east of Cincinnati, is where the future Civil War General and President of the United States was born.
Unfortunately, it was being painted and roofed the day I dropped by, so I didn't get to go in. Lyss wasn't home anyway.
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©D.L. Mark 2002
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