Title: Albert W. Grant Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1829-1930

Creator:

• Grant, Albert W. (Albert Weston), 1856-1930

Call Number: Wis Mss AI; PH 1339

Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (3 archives boxes) and 25 photographs (1 folder)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Vice-Admiral Albert W. Grant, originally of Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Included are memorandum books, letters of congratulations, a few official communications, social invitations, and a logbook for the U.S.S. Constellation for part of 1874. Photographs include images of individuals, homes, and buildings related to Grant and his son, Richard Southhall Grant, circa 1895.

Language: English

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Albert W. Grant, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, worked in the Stevens Point Post Office then about 1873 entered the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis as a midshipmen. His Naval career included serving as a commander of vessels principally in the Orient, chief of staff of the Atlantic Fleet during the world cruise of 1908-1909, and commandant of the Philadelphia Navy Yard. He was promoted through the grades to the rank of rear admiral in 1915 and was retired as vice admiral in 1920. He died on September 30, 1930.

Sources: Who's Who in America, 1930-31; Standard History of Portage County (Chicago: 1919), 1:136; Register of...Officers...of U.S. Navy, 1929, 1930.

For the early seventies there are a few small memorandum books and an autograph book kept by Grant while in the Post Office in Stevens Point and at the Naval Academy. The correspondence is almost exclusively of a social nature, consisting predominantly of invitations to banquets, receptions, balls, reunions, ship launchings, naval demonstrations, and similar affairs given by naval officers, clubs, patriotic organizations, and military orders all over the world. Through these and a small number of official and personal letters, one can trace Grant's career. Also present are a brief logbook for the U.S.S. Constellation and family photographs.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Richard S. Grant, May 1937.

Wis Mss AI	Correspondence
Box   1 Folder   1	1829-1899
Box   1 Folder   2	1900-1911
Box   1 Folder   3	1912-1917
Box   1 Folder   4	1918-1930
Box   1 Folder   5	Undated
Box   3 Folder   1	Naval Christmas Cards
Box   3 Folder   2-3	Invitations
Box   3 Folder   4	Orient
Box   2	Autograph Book
Box   2	Memoranda Books, 1871, 1873, undated Physical Description: 3 volumes
Box   2	U.S.S. Constellation Logbook, June-September 1874
PH 1339	Photographs