generalfrederickdentgrant

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called 1910s Fashion, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Posing on the occasion of the annual lawn party of the Army Relief Society, on Governors Island in New York harbor, May 25, 1911. Frederick Dent Grant was commanding general at the Army base on Governors Island, where he lived with his family until his death, from cancer, in April, l9l2.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant_III en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Dent_Grant www.arlingtoncemetery.net/francism.htm

Let's give the ladies some names: Mrs. F. D. Grant, Ida Marie Honore, is here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Marie_Honor%C3%A9 Mrs. Francis Gibson was named Kate. Can't find anything about her. Mrs. U. S. Grant III was named Edith Root. Edith Root was born circa 1879. She was the daughter of Elihu Root, US Sec of State under T. Roosevelt. Edith Root married Maj. Gen. Ulysses Simpson Grant, son of General Frederick Dent Grant and Ida Marie Honore, on 27 November 1907. Edith Root died on 23 May 1962. She's buried in Hamilton College Cemetery.

Shadrach Chistopoulos: Great idea to find the names of the women in this image. Thank you! We will add the fuller names to the description when we update.

That's James "Jimmie" Ward www.earlyaviators.com/eward1.htm Considering that by mid 1912 War was arrested on bigamy charges and Grant lost a battle with Cancer, I would date this pic at 1911.

Thanks for the information! We’ll look into it.

grant died on , July 23, 1885 .. this can't be the US Grant from the Amerian Civil War

This picture together with LC-B2- 2265-8 (Ward and Hudson Maxim) and LC-B2- 2265-9 Ward in his Curtiss airplane) and LC-B2- 2265-5 (Ward taking off from Grosvenor Island New York) all belong together. Pictures were taken on the occasion of the start of the aviator James J. Ward for the Hearst Transcontinental Flight, where he would fly the traject New York - San Francisco. The first who did the transcontinental flight earned the prize allotted by Hearst: $ 50,000. The start in New York of Ward was on September 13, 1911 where he left at 09:00 hours. So the pictures can be exactly dated. According to the record two man in high places were present Major-General Grant (probably 'another' Grant) and Hudson Maxim (the brother of Hiram Maxim, Hudson Maxim was also an inventor). Remarkable is the take off picture which was exactly taken when Ward got the machine loose from the ground. In the background is the Statue of Liberty. As told Ward came not very far and he abandoned his prize flight around the 22nd of September 1911. The whole occassion was reported on in the NY Times September 13, 1911 and following. The report of the start (giving also the names of Major-General Grant and Hudson Maxim) can be found at query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9402E0D91531E2... with the title 'Ward on long flight. Will start from Governors Island Today on a Trip to San Francisco'. Cheers Kees

Varese2002: Thanks for tying the photos together with some added context! We'll see what we can do to reference the event when we edit the description.

This was taken on Broadway and Houston Street--the building on the left with the wide arches is the Cable Building (McKim, Mead & White, 1894). Houston was later widened in part thanks to subway construction, meaning that some of the buildings closest to the photographer are now long gone.

This would be the funeral of Maj. Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, U.S. Army, who died April 12, 1912, while commanding general of the Department of the East with headquarters at Governor's Island in New York Harbor. General Grant was the son of Ulysses S. Grant. There is a small collection of Frederick Dent Grant papers at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois.