Ulysses S. Grant's White Haven: A Place Where Extraordinary People Came to Live Ordinary Lives, 1796-1885. Historic Resource Study Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site, Missouri
Little KS. 1993. Ulysses S. Grant's White Haven: A Place Where Extraordinary People Came to Live Ordinary Lives, 1796-1885. Historic Resource Study Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site, Missouri. Historic Resource Study. St. Louis, MO
The history of White Haven and its owners will be explored in this historic resource study. Chapter Three begins with the founding of St. Louis and introducing White Haven's residents through its first half century. At the close of this period, the farm was owned by Frederick Dent, the father-in-law of Ulysses S. Grant. Chapters Four through Seven detail the life of Grant before he achieved fame in the Civil War. Grant's childhood, education, courtship, service in the Mexican War and peacetime army will be discussed, as will the period when Grant lived at White Haven in the 1850s. Chapter Eight provides a narrative of the Civil War and Grant's personal and family life from 1861 to 1865, in particular his purchase of White Haven: Chapters Nine through Eleven explore Grant's public service after the war, his presidential administration, and his final years. The study illuminates his wife and children during this period as well. Chapters Twelve and Thirteen conclude with a brief history of the subsequent owners of White Haven, from Grant's death in 1885 to 1989, when the property became the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site. This work is a beginning for studying the fascinating people who made White Haven and the Gravois farm their home. It spans American history from Spanish colonial Louisiana to Gilded Age politics, and therefore it does not provide a detailed study of any single aspect. Its most famous resident, Ulysses S. Grant, is studied for what past histories have not told us about him. His life is connected with the earlier residents of the farm and their stories. This history of White Haven provides a springboard for more specialized considerations of all of the residents of White Haven, beginning with the prehistory of St. Louis.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Little, Kimberly
- Date of Issue
- 1993
- Units
- HIST , ULSG
- Keywords
- Battles in Peace, Chldhood and Education, Cultural Resources, ehistory, fighting, Fur Trader James Mackay, Gravois Farm, History, Love and War in Missouri and Mexico, Peacetime Offices of War, Pioneers on the Gravois, Pre-History and Founding of St. Louis, President Ulysses S. Grant, The Civil War, The Civilian Years in St. Louis and Galena, The Dents at White Haven, Theodore and Anne Lucas Hunt, Ulysses S. Grant, United States Military Academy, White Haven, William and Elizabeth Sappington Long