A Painted House

Parents
Jesse Root Grant was born on January 23, 1794 near Greensburg, Pennsylvania. When his mother, Rachel Kelly Grant, died in 1805 his family broke apart. His father, Noah Grant, could not support the six children being a shoemaker, so he sent Jesse out on his own at age eleven. After many years of working as a hired hand he began to work for George Tod, in Youngstown, Ohio, who was a politician and a judge. While working for Tod, for two years, he learned how to read and developed a taste for refinement and being wealthy. During his childhood Jesse acquired two...