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Dent was born on December 17, 1820, in White Haven, St. Louis County, Missouri. He was the son of Frederick Fayette Dent (1787–1873) and Ellen Bray (née Wrenshall) Dent (1793–1857). [1] He graduated from West Point in 1843. One of Dent's classmates was Ulysses S. Grant, who married Dent's sister Julia.
Frederick Dent Grant at a Military Tournament, Toledo, Ohio, 1909. Frederick Dent Grant (May 30, 1850 – April 12, 1912) [1] was a soldier and United States minister to Austria-Hungary. Grant was the first son of General and President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant and Julia Grant. He was named after his uncle, Frederick Tracy Dent.
The Hunts sold the Gravois property to Frederick Dent in 1820, for the sum of $6,000 (~$180,251 in 2023). Naming the property "White Haven" after his family home in Maryland, Colonel Dent considered himself a Southern gentleman with enslaved people whom he could force to do the farmwork. By the 1850s, 18 people were enslaved at White Haven. [4]
Colonel Frederick Dent, Julia's father, gave 80 acres of the farm to the couple as a wedding present on what today is Rock Hill Road. Grant built his cabin on this land. [2] Colonel Dent was a farmer in St. Louis County. He owned 925 acres along Gravois Creek, 10 miles southwest of the city, and owned slaves to farm the land.
Frederick Dent may refer to: Frederick B. Dent (1922–2019), United States Secretary of Commerce; Frederick Tracy Dent (1820–1892), American general
Julia Boggs Dent was born on January 26, 1826, at White Haven plantation west of St. Louis, Missouri. [2] [3] Her parents were Frederick Dent (1787–1873), a planter and merchant, and Ellen Wrenshall Dent. [2] Frederick enslaved about 30 Africans, whom he freed only when compelled by law, having previously resisted moral arguments against ...
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Dent, Frederick Tracy: Lieutenant colonel, USA (March 20, 1864) Brigadier general, USV (April 5, 1865) Brigadier general, USA (March 13, 1865) USMA, 1843 Brother-in-law of Ulysses S. Grant: Denver, James W. Brigadier general, USV (August 14, 1861) Resigned March 5, 1863 U.S. Congressman from California (1855–1857) Territorial Governor of ...