Grant was elected president of the United States. Julia worried that her strabismus—the condition that gave her her cross-eyed appearance—might be an embarrassment to her husband. She ...

Grant’s wife (the pair met in 1844 and married in August 1848) were taken or painted from a side profile. That’s because Julia was born with a condition called strabismus, a disorder—more ...

Miss Julia Dent Grant, Brig. Gen. Frederick Dent Grant's daughter, reached the city yesterday with her aunt, Mrs. Potter Palmer, on the North German Lloyd steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse.

In her later years, Julia Grant tended to portray her childhood as something out of a dream. And although her real-life marriage to Ulysses S. Grant would deliver all the romance and adventure ...

Grant, First Lady Julia Grant purchased a black, beaded silk evening wrap for the occasion. This 37-inch-long cloak would become one of renowned French designer Emile Pingat’s most recognizable pieces ...