estate. He purchased property throughout San Diego. In 1895, he bought the Horton House hotel. He wanted to run the hotel and name it after his father. In 1905, he razed the old hotel and built a new one, the U.S. Grant Hotel, in 1910. San Diego voters helped finance $700,000 for the $1.5 million needed to construct the hotel after Grant lacked the funds to do so. During his time in San Diego, Grant became a close associate of Charles T. Hinde, E. S. Babcock, and John D. Spreckels. Hinde and Grant served on the boards of directors of multiple banks and invested in many companies and business ventures together. Grant continued to speculate in real estate. He also became a leading citizen, who pushed for the creation of a city park, that would become Balboa Park. Grant was a delegate-at-large for California at the Republican National Conventions in 1896 and 1900. He was also an elector for California in the 1904 and 1908 presidential elections (see U.S. Electoral College). Personal life In 1880, Grant married Fannie Josephine Chaffee (1857–1909), daughter of Jerome B. Chaffee, U.S. Senator from Colorado. They had five children: Miriam (born 1881), Chaffee (born 1883), Julia (born 1885), Fannie (born 1889), and Ulysses IV (born 1893). Grant's wife died in 1909 and four years later he married a widow, America Workman Will (1878–1942). Grant and his wife traveled extensively. In his later years, they stayed closer to home and traveled in California. He was a member of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. Grant died at age 77 at the Sandberg Lodge on the Ridge Route north of Los Angeles while on a road trip. He was buried at Greenwood Cemetery in San Diego. References Banning, Evelyn I. (1981) "U. S. Grant Jr.: A Builder of San Diego." Journal of San Diego History Vol. 27, No. 1. Black, Samuel T., San Diego County California vol. 2, pp. 14–15 (Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1913). Biography 1852 births 1929 deaths American people of English descent American prosecutors Columbia Law School alumni Children of presidents of the United States Harvard University alumni New York (state) lawyers Phillips Exeter Academy alumni People from Bethel, Ohio Businesspeople from San Diego Grant family Lawyers from San Diego California Republicans People from North Salem, New York Burials at Greenwood Memorial Park (San Diego)