“Needless to say, they registered at the Penn Hall, the last word in hotel convenience, when they visited Pottsville,” Farquhar wrote. Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and James Garfield; World ...

Legend has it that it was here, at the Willard Hotel, that one of DC’s favorite words was born: lobbying. President Ulysses S. Grant used to hold forth in the lobby of the hotel, reading the ...

when it was Willard's City Hotel and the home of sitting presidents (Franklin Pierce) and later vice presidents (Calvin Coolidge). As legend goes, President Ulysses S. Grant coined the word ...

It was a year and a week after the fateful Confederate defeat at Gettysburg, four months after the advent of Ulysses S. Grant as the Federal ... in a New York City hotel, sent word that he would ...

when it was Willard’s City Hotel and the home of sitting presidents (Franklin Pierce) and later vice presidents (Calvin Coolidge). As legend goes, President Ulysses S. Grant coined the word “lobbyist” ...

In time, Ulysses will accept U. S. Grant as his true name, insisting that his middle initial stands for "nothing." After graduating from West Point ranked 21 in a class of 39 in June, Grant ...

U.S. Army Commanding General Ulysses S. Grant’s victory over the Confederate forces guaranteed his widespread popularity. After the war, he helped implement Congressional Reconstruction efforts ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — April marks three years since a fire damaged the Pine Tree Hotel on Mosquito Beach. Now, a new $1.25 million grant is helping with restoration efforts. “In the Jim ...

William Tecumseh Sherman had a lot in common with Ulysses S. Grant. Like Grant, he was born in Ohio. Like Grant, he graduated from the military academy at West Point. Like Grant, he failed as a ...

President Grant gave the pen he used to sign the 15th Amendment to a fellow Civil War veteran, Herbert Preston. Copyright © 2017 by Wendel A. White President Ulysses ...

Grant's Farm was built by Civil War Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who settled on the land in 1855 to farm and raise cattle. In 1903, August A. Busch Sr. bought the land, and ever since it has belonged to ...