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Show EARLY FAILURES OF GRANT RECALLED CHICAOQ, April 28. How fly.--B Grunt rose from a $75 a monln clerkship In I860 to be genersl of all lh armies of the north in the Civil Win' and the conqueror of the rebc-1-.lon, In four years, was told by Prank Hatch Jones, husband ot Gehei Grant's daughter. Thursday In speech before the Chicago Historical society. Mr. Jones told of Grant's fear when he was appointed to West Point that he could not pass his examlrwtlon or graduate After serving with distinction In tho .Mexican war. Grant resigned from the aimy and became a farmer nt which he failed to a. blevc any so, . cess. Then he entered the real estate es-tate business, which also proved failure, after which h took his family fam-ily and returned to Galena, HI . where he became a clerk In the- store of bi father. At the outbreak of the war he wa offered a captaincy In a Galena con. puny but decided that his mllll experience i ntiiied htm to the command com-mand of a regiment, so went to Springfield, in , where lie obtained tin appointment he desired. |