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Show Grant at "Slaveholder" Ulysses Simpson Grant was at one time technically a slave owner. After he graduated from West Point he was sent to St. Louis for garrison duty Near that city lived one of his class mates, Frederick T. Dent, whose fu ther owned a large plantation known as White Haven and enough negro slaves to live In characteristic south em comfort. In 1848, upon Ids re turn from the Mexican war, Oram was married at White Haven to Julia Dent, the sister of his classmate. Tin elder Dent mude the young couple n present of a slave boy. Of course General Grant never trafficked In slaves. Kansas City Star. Not Fighting Arthur and James are cousins and Inclined to tight with each other, de spite grandmother's repented warn lngs. The other morning, hearing a com motion, she hurried to the door, to find the two youngsters clutching each other and rolling about on the porcb. "Boys," she scolded, "how can you fight like this after what you prom Ised me?" "We wuzn't flghtln'," answered James as they both' hastily straight ened up; "we wuz Jest tryln to sep arate each other." Chicago Tribune |