"This is the best portrait of my father that I have ever
seen."--Frederick Dent Grant, eldest son of Ulysses S. Grant.
This portrait, by Leon Lippert, was hanging in the rooms of the
Military Order of the Loyal
Legion of the United States in the Masonic Temple, Cincinnati, Ohio,
according to a Cincinnati Times-Star
newspaper article dated January 29, 1906. Frederick Dent Grant viewed the
portrait with Generals O. O. Howard and G. M. Dodge. The newspaper article states: "He made no
comment for several minutes, examining the portrait carefully. He then
turned to the committee and said it was the best portrait of his
father he had ever seen."
Information for this page is from The Report of the
Reunion of the Grant Family Association at the Celebration of the 100th
Anniversary of the Birth of U. S. Grant. Published at Westfield,
Massachusetts, 1922.