Show CABIN GABIN BUILT B BY 1 Il t GENERAL GRANT i iI IT I I II I i Exhibit W t i to bo be Exhibit Exhibited I ed cd at St Louis LouisI ft I 0 I a AS I t tr liny It r Itc It II mi fill the Hie li f f Special Correspondence nce to i aAl fit sL Louia IoUI March Jl 31 Notable among amone the historic attraction at the tit S aria ami exposition Will till l I h hand Hani built scrabble Home the log lor cabin cabal which and nil occupied O by General o lens lately liven been purchased by C 1 I le and un mat exposition director 1 n will b be n ro In Forest Jore t park lark where hertl 0 have It U remain an lill a I it IB is l planned to i permanent neuronal to III the the famous particularly le the tho dark t day data dR when li he i WM wag struggling against a fur for ur him dm adverse fate to make malle a I living flying I INo n f elf elt lf and family malty as na a 1 firmer alter No Na more mOle will the contra t bo ho between this humble little cabin rabin of o ML lone logs k hewn hewrI nb by br y hi hh hili own hand and the towering wad and nd palaces or of the theia ia world fair than thuu was wa the Iha In Inthe Inthe Inthe the condition or of the man who within a decade from the time hit h left lell Hard liard Hardscrabble scrabble cabin well ell nigh penniless and anti andu II u r n HI as a 11 fanner anner Into the White While Mouse HOUM fit nl Insh UH ua the chief executive of o the Hut some tremendously I lie Ig events occurred ocI lit lu that thAI decade In which the th one time limo poor nod al almost almost 1 most despondent fanner played n con eon part lAII Of or three those events eV nil all the fIu world know tn as vs hafs It dues do M nt nut now FO ro much of the long Ion i 1 ii f 1 k years yeara of ot struggle which this primitive log l House dome which Ulys tea Pea S 8 Grant chue chole to 10 t all 1111 the that Hist of at hi his hll own ova 0 waa IU w aa built hullt by ills hi own landIn land In the full fait or OY un on u II portion of oC the estate of Or Frederick Dent his hll fathi n out mi m II the old read load nine miles from thin thus city elty It 11 stood for fol halt half n II t century The Th place pineo lace was appropriately appropriate all named for fur here Here young yoting Grant who hud hid h Just Junt re reo from the army arm after nUr aft r graduated from W t Pont und and fought bravely the war had hada ha 1 a lard Iud scrabble to tn support himself and anda family a m 11 A few el years I rl before his hili 1111 resignation nation then Ihen u It gallant young lieutenant stationed at Jefferson JefTer nn he hi had bud hll l courted and und married the daughter or Of olond Dent DellI Later he was wan wa Irani trana to 10 harbor N X Y V sub aub II to t U Fort Vancouver on na th the Pacific 1 coast amid thence to 10 Fort Cal Cul above San Ban Ill HI pay nay a HI al an un army officer wa waa 81 email much I leu leep than titan army arm of ot the tho little rank to In duy du lie He could not 1101 take like hi hili and anil little sun nun now no General Frederick LI nt Grant Irani around the Horn to 10 hit hla distant dl i pout poet Olt and In those thole day days n A Journey the continent wu Yoe Willi for them out nut of ot the queNan lie He sent Mn trait Orant I and the child to his bin rather father home homo In I Ohio and shortly his hl departure departing u R von son on was wan born Later Mm Mrs Ir rant I and her children went to 10 live JIve at al White WhiteHaven Haven flaxen her birthplace the home of Colonel Dent 1 Hut the young soldier loved hit hll wife vIre and 1111 bable balliet and anI the doe from them was wa unendurable Ho No o while hll Ma eta tinned 1 on the Ihl Pacific coast In hl Anil April ISM 4 on Oil the very wr day da he lie had received n tI tIa a Commission he hi tendered hi ht hili resignation from mot the t e urmy to take effect the last laid day of n the July follow fallow fallowing lag ing In At the till of ot that thai time hn hI east going KohlI Ont first to 10 ills bin early home borne III In Ohio 1 flu 1 where he terms to tn have been rather coldly by U his hili fa ra father rather far farher ther her who In la said mid to 10 hole been deeply humiliated hu mil 1 Into i I by b Y hll he hii eldest mm lIun anna retire retirement I ment from rom the military service In III which w he lie lied Imd expected e him to 10 win glo glory glory lo lor ry r und and renown These Theil came Caine Inter later but HUl that ID Is another story After Arter n II brief visit with hi hl hll panda rapt Caps Hrant came to 10 St SI Louis Loul und I III his hl hi family at lit Cob Col t Danta years year fars of age with a It wife and two children 11 I III r u one of or whom he lie hail had never seen ho had abandoned th hit military profession and UH Ina pay puy 10 and was WAil facing the future without n II cent Thus Tims rapt Oro lit begun the ll of n a home hoer Col oh 01 Dent Deul si I aside n hp n a 1 tract trall of or SO 80 nen a s oil m th h hI hold I old home farm for ur his bin hl use till ll 11 lir did Jid not give Grant a deed to 10 the land He lie elm aim simply ply for Julius JulIa sake nuke Rave gave the Mexican lexIcon war to o 0 It mina nna do du what whal you vou ou cull can with It Col Dent like Ilka Jae treat Orant was not nol well pleased with the man who lied had married lib Ida daughter The colonel was a n southern southerner er 1 of ot able mean lne n n R substantial citizen Old neighbors of ot the Dalit Dents stOl recall urn language uie used l 1 by 11 Col Dent In alluding to Capt CallI irant rant Hat JUil this Ihl did dill not the ex captain It wan waa sufficient that his wife WIro loved hIm and lint approved of oC his hll course p ni ml mid cheerfully hared hili hia hardships That winter and the next spring nod summer tie lia cut wood plowed for tor wheat lined hoed corn hound bound behind the keen cradles Irn loll of or hi Ida hll till herIn In taws law darky der dark k y el ales and end was wal s a farmers man bait manof manor t of or all ull work lie He had on an n a farm In his hla hi boyhood and was not ashamed of honest toll 1011 tollIo Jn Io the Ihl lat late lull of the harvest MIT firant Orant began b an the work of ot cutting from which to 10 hew he the timber tit III H the log house houlle that waa WA to bo ho hie hi i Inmei h me HP lie worked early anti and Rill lute late Oak Dale und elm tell rIll before hi hll hia onslaught Hi his II fought It ii out OUI on that line lint all nil the tho therah rah fn II and anti at II t last lall wax was ready for the tho thein I in 10 Ic In There are al many ilia II venerable citizen of or St Louis Ioula who recall with fond amI It the hOUMe of ot thoo old oM days daya When the pioneer had hewed Ids hIs hIslop lop logs and hauled them to the silo Bite of ot hi hl ills future home h he went the coun countrywide notifying hl his neighbors that thai ui Ion on a certain day 11 the bee lire take lake place and oM early rain came the neighbors to till e builder In iii raisin the thi timbers 11 he Into IntI There wait n a dinner spread on the ground around sad and hard elder cider and ginger vl 68 kept the lIll workers cheerful rue 1 house hou e hen ben wait wn not nota no a L whit w different In Its ilK Immediate as aa aspect Peel from Crom others other of nr that tha t time though the lb Ih historical hi sli wait VIII vastly 11 i The Cht neighbors who into on 00 thud autumn day helped to put In tho the heavy timbers lIm kern for tor humble home Iome hal had t l high alg h respect for the tho ea cap cal twin because he was known to 10 them themar ar a n veteran of at the Mexican war or ar r a 1 former officer of or the regular army Th Ih y respected him bite also nl o he hp hewan wan waa a hard worker like and n rood Band family man They rhoy liked him Lunt fb for hU hll Ii la manly It tea After CUr tr the Ihl I III raga were In pl IIII e O Grant luti tirli the Hit Moors and helped 1 a u 1 lr tr nt lit the tho window trainee frames ne nethe II n the grouter greater tart port of c tho the shingling and the stairway that in ti ma tins III two 1111 bis hia hl low lin rooms riom In III the thi gable roof Grant moved mOI hi hlA 1011 Into the hp and It was sae ns thel home for three yearn lar lily Hla fa tn w big white while house hOUlle a man farm mansion sion sian In 10 those days bore a name ammo of ll lis bent gave his hue cabin a u distinctive name mme Well call it hr lir said possibly pos wondering how the of Whito Haven would like Ilka the tho And It was hard scrabbling for tor Grant Orant during the tho next tow few yeas yeam He lit a 11 Hei lie III plowed and sowed hd I d reaped lIe Ho cut cui and Bold It on the IIII of Bt Ht Louis outs In III the tho th therill rill met old array army nIO who nho nt er l nt at the shabby look lookIng ln Ing farmer Grant Gront appeared not to 10 nor no notice lies tice the sneers lIe He was ins trying to 10 make maken a n for lor his hU family In 10 the big lof cabin collin was a busy hus housewife surround out oil o ly by I her children and that was tua 1111 hums home something ra n nIn r hu h cu never knew when r he WAS wan nA nAIn In the tho many army Thin life wont on u humdrum life ex u except cent for tor Wife und mid babies drubbing hoeing hauling Great Orant began to 10 grow old oM apparently He lie permitted ills his beard to 10 grow grol so that he looked much older than ho tae was os he felt old It U Is known thus ho made mantle but hul little hondo bond way Wn In his farming and that he hl was wall d deeply ply discouraged ed but bul lie hi 1 mantle made little litho complaint hut Hip III health falM failed he lie caught chills find and fever amid grew sallow callow see Fee seeing seeing ing nothing In prospect but hili the same emna sort of ot patient toll tolI lie He was almost beaten but hut not quito quite In 1867 1807 Mrs Mra Dent died and Colnnel alone Dent removed to St Louis Grant Orant was vas placed In nai c of or While White WhiteHaven Haven moving out of or the d dear ar old cab cabin cabIn in lIe He was In control of ot the negro nc ro slaves shaven sIll 08 A historian of ot thu tho period says nays He lie was a it poor slave er 11 however The negroes did dill pretty much as then the pleased Late In 1863 racked with ngue ho he Rave Ravo up tip farming altogether and went Into the real estate bu hU l ss IS In III In St SI StLouis it Louis In which he ho was no more sue sur tul than hen he ho had been as all n R tiller of or atthe the soil loll In 1860 apparently n a defeat defeated ed NI Cd man he went to 10 work ns nM a n clerk cllrk at nt I 60 50 a n 1 month In his ilia hl fathers t leather store In Galena III Then came cume the civil war wor n nr and What happened then than need ned not be hI here recounted House blouse remained 11 tho thu property properly of ot General Grant Orant until 1111 8 t when Ferdinand Ward wrecked this the Him firm of or Grant Orant A Jt Ward and It was turned over to William II H one of ot his hia largest lar est Mr Van sold fold It II t to Luther roan fonn ann who In 1891 1191 said fold ol It to 10 Edward Joy n II real ear cs tate dealer of this city Mr r JOY Jov moved the robin to Old Orchard throe miles mile from lt its IIA original orl site sit where It II now stands In a well preserved condition Mr who lately purchased It from tram Mr Joy Job Jo has Ina arranged to move the structure to 10 the worlds fair toll site and rebuild Ie it upon Ion a It location to 10 be bc made permanent pt |