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1822 Apr 27: Born in Point Pleasant, OH.

1864 Mar 9: Given command of all Union forces in the US Civil War.

1865 Apr 9: Accepts Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, VA.

1865 Apr 14: President Abraham Lincoln assasinated.

1869 Mar 4 - 1877 Mar 4: President of the United States.

1885 July 23: Dies.

Family Connection Although several counties apart, this future US President spent his early years in Ohio at the same time as the David Good family.

Notes

1. Bruce Catton, A Stillness at Appomattox (Anchor Books, 1990 Sep, 1953).

2. Bruce Catton, Grant Takes Command (Castle Books, 2000).

3. Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memiors of U. S. Grant (1885).