The Great Financial Panic of 1873 - Closing the door of the Stock Exchange on its members, Saturday, Sept. 20th. ... Ulysses S. Grant's father made a living tanning leather.

Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M. Bordewich Knopf, ... the collapse of the economy in the Panic of 1873, and northern Democrats put in the way.

On this day in 1885, shortly after completing his memoirs, Ulysses S. Grant, the nation’s 18th president and a key architect of the Union victory in the Civil War, died at age 63 of throat cancer.

This month marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Civil War general and two-term president Ulysses S. Grant, whose legacy is complicated and conflicting. Skip to content. Local News.

When the banking firm of Jay Cooke and Company, a firm heavily invested in railroad construction, closed its doors on September 18, 1873, a major economic panic swept the nation.