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with his friend Mark Twain to publish the memoirs and resolved grimly to complete them before he died.
In June 1885 the Grant family moved to a cottage in Wilton, New York, in the Adirondack Mountains, and a month later Grant died there. His funeral was seven miles long accompanied his coffin to a temporary vault in New York City’s Riverside Park. In 1897, on the 75th anniversary of his birth, his remains were removed to a magnificent neoclassical granite tomb at Riverside Drive on Morningside Heights in Manhattan. Julia Grant, who lived until 1902, was interred beside her husband, as they had planned.
Down below is a link to his Saint Louis, Missouri house https://www.nps.gov/ulsg/index.htm and his Galena, Illinois house https://www.granthome.org/ and his Cottage in Wilton, New York https://www.grantcottage.org/ and a video
received more than 300 votes in each of the 36 ballots of the 1880 convention, which finally nominated James A. Garfield.
In 1881 Grant bought a house in New York City and began to take an interest in the investment firm of Grant and Ward, in which his son Ulysses, Jr., was a partner. Grant put his capital at the disposal of the firm and encouraged others to follow. In 1884 the firm collapsed, swindled by Ferdinand Ward. This impoverished the entire Grant family and tarnished Grant’s reputation.
Lastly, in 1884 Grant began to write reminiscences of his campaigns for the Century Magazine and found this work so congenial that he began his memoirs. Despite excruciating throat pain, later diagnosed as cancer, he signed a contract