GRANT CABIN DEDICATION

Grandson of Grant and New Commander of G.A.R. Are Guests of Honor
From: Clermont Courier, Oct. 7, 1936

With a tremendous crowd on hand to witness the festivities, the original cabin in which U.S. Grant, eighteenth president of the United States was born on April 27, 1922, at Pt. Pleasant, was re-dedicated Sunday with appropriate ceremonies as it was officially opened to the public after being returned to its original site from Columbus, Ohio, where it has been for 31 years.

It was estimated that five thousand persons were assembled at the scene of the dedication, which featured an address by Myers Y. Cooper former governor; music by the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphan's Home Band of Xenia, and short talks by a number of other important personages. Judge Hugh L. Nichols was chairman of the event.

Among the notables to attend were: Colonel U. S. Grant III, grandson of the former president and C.W.H. Ruhe, Pittsburgh, newly elected National Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic. Ruhe served under General Grant in the Army of the Potomac.

Brief addresses were made by Michael G. Heintz, Cincinnati; E.L. Bowsher, State Director of education; Clifford R. Fox, Commander of U.S.Grant Post, Sons of Civil War Veterans; W.C. Myers, Spanish American War veteran; John Q. Hendrixson, World War veteran; Henry C. Chetrone, director of the Ohio Historical Society; State Senator Harold D. Nichols, and State Representative John Hayden, who sponsored the bill that brought the return of the cabin to its original site and presented Grant's grandson with an original autographed copy of the Bill.