Grant Tomb Project Moves Toward Completion Amid Photo Mystery
The Grant Monument Association raises nearly a half million dollars to finish the tomb plaza on River Side Drive New York with a terrace, shrubbery walks a portico and an equestrian statue of Ulysses S Grant. A quest for a life mounted photograph proves elusive despite extensive searching of New York Historical Society public library and Brown Brothers archives.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Ulysses &. Grant
United States
Riverside Drive
New York City
Grant Monument Association
Ulysses S. Grant
Gurney C. Guce
New York Herald Tribune
General A. Grant
Grant
New York Historical Sociery
Daniel Chester French
Fairmont Park
Philadelphia
Iife
Robert Underwood Johnson
Century
C. & Euel
Union League Club
Warren ML Healy
Healy
Flornce Porter
Corriage
Army War College At
Washington
Thp
General Grant
The
New York Historical Society
Currier & Ives
JL. Mercier
Public
Birthday schemes and a race against the clock
George Moffett and Elaine race to marry before 4 47 and avoid losing 9000 in trust as Old Daniel hatches a plan. Muriel appears at the lawyer’s office and hints at family intrigues while the couple secures license and ring before five minutes to six at the Linke Church.
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Pis Verdon
George Moffett
George
Elaine
Muriel
Emma
Daniel
Old Daniel
Dantel
San Francisco
New York
Robert
Uame
Linke
Political Dinner Quip Recalled by Gov Bibbs Groves
At a Montgomery dinner Gov Bibbs Groves of Alabama recounted a joke about French and German postwar tensions. The tale features Cal Clay Wash White and a remark about colored men, ending with a claim of a universal winner despite hardship.
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Bibbs Groves
Alabama
Montgomery
Cal
Wash White
Revere Ride Imagery Marking 195th Birthday
The illustration combines a midnight ride re enactment with St James Church Cambridge bells and an artist’s rendering of Paul Revere on his horse. The piece notes his fame as a silversmith predating the 1775 ride and his enduring art legacy celebrated by museums.
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Revere
St. James Episcopal Church
Cambridge
Mass
Paul Revere
Middlesex
Vermonters Honor Early Patriots at Westminster Massacre Site
The article recalls Vermont figures William French and Daniel Houghton wounded in the Westminster courthouse clash with Loyalists during the lead up to Vermont independence. It notes the King’s Highway nearby and a DAR marker moved for road work while commemorations mark the two martyrs and the Liberty Boys.
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Great Britain
Lexington
Vermont
Massachusetts
King’s Highway
Bellows Falls
Putney
Daughters of the
John C. Richmond
Old Westminster Burying Ground
Liberty Boys
New Hampshire
Privy Council
New York
Rockingham
Court of Common Pleas
Chester
Chandler
Westminster
Agmriah Wright
Liberty
Doora
William Paterson
Norton's
Dni
King's Highway
William French
Nathaniel French
George
Morgan s Odd Tribute to Pennsylvania Dutch
The article notes eight companies of riflemen formed by Pennsylvania Dutch farmers before the Revolutionary War. These troops joined Gen. Daniel Morgan s Virginia riflemen, though many were from Pennsylvania. A diarist recalls their endurance and prowess, claiming they averaged 35 miles daily on a Boston march and included Washington s sharpest riflemen.
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Grant
Washington
Roosevelt
United States Military Academy
West Point
Esder
Taylor
Mexico
McCall
Corpus Christie
Gran
Mamoirs
Nome
Monterey
Twiggs
Egypt
Jeff Davis
Cincinnati
Lexington
Ohio City
Chattanooga
Daniel Ammen
President Lincoln
Lincoln
James River
Lee
White House
Philadelphia
Daniel Morgan
Virginia Riflemen
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Inquirer
Virginia
Lancaster
John Joseph Henry
Boston
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Brown, Brothers
Stork
Herald Tribune
Gardners
Arthur Brown
Grant Montrert
Lincoln Park
Chicago
Gert. Tussies
J. Grant
King George
L. §. Hayes
Fellows Falls
Morgan
Brandywine
Battle of
Brandywine Creek
Lafayette
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