Ellen “Nellie” Wrenshall Grant was the daughter of Ulysses S. Grant and his wife Julia Dent. Nellie was born on the Fourth of July in 1855 in a place called Wish Ton Wish near St. Louis, Missouri. She was U.S. and Julia Grant’s only daughter ; they also had three sons. Library of Congress - Brady Handy Collection She was a child of privilege. She was 13 when her father was elected President of the United States and the family moved into the White House. Her parents believed Nellie needed a proper education, so they chose Miss Porter’s School in Connecticut. Her father escorted her to Connecticut, because he believed that his wife would be unable to withstand Nellie’s pleas to come home. However, by the time he arrived back in Washington, D.C., she had sent three telegrams expressing her unhappiness and it was her father that relented. He sent an escort to bring her back home. Library of Congress/Brady Handy Collection - LC-BH826- 2313 Because of her family’s