July 7, 2008: The US 52 bridge in Point Pleasant, Ohio, is the Grant Memorial Bridge, named for its most famous son. US 52 hugs the north bank of the Ohio River from Cincinnati to Huntington. Grant also lived in Galena, Illinois.
After not noticing new sequences for a while, I saw a spate of them in the past week or so. We’re almost through the H’s in Iowa.
But what does this have to do with the 18th president? Well, Ulysses S. Grant is not his birth name. He was born Hiram Ulysses Grant. I had read he didn’t like the initials HUG, but now I see sources that say the name change relates to Grant’s congressman misstating his name in the application to West Point.
Last year an annotated version of Grant’s memoirs was published to high acclaim.