Lemuel Pratt Grant was an American engineer and businessman.
22 Facts About Lemuel Grant
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Lemuel Grant was Atlanta's quintessential railroad man as well as a major landowner and civic leader.
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Lemuel Grant designed and built Atlanta's defenses during the American Civil War and afterwards became an important civic leader: donating the land for Grant Park, Atlanta's first large park, and serving as councilman and on various boards and committees.
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Lemuel Grant's mansion is one of only four remaining original antebellum houses in the city of Atlanta.
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Lemuel Pratt Grant was born at Frankfort, Maine, on August 11,1817.
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Lemuel Grant grew up on a farm and between twelve and nineteen years of age worked on the farm and in a village store.
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A] Colonel Lemuel Grant was appointed a captain of engineers for the Confederacy and retained that position to the end of the [Civil] War.
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From October, 1866 to 1881, Colonel Lemuel Grant was in charge of the Atlanta and West Point Railroad as General Superintendent.
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In 1844 and 1846, when Atlanta was known as Marthasville, Colonel Lemuel Grant bought land lots 52,53, and 44, containing about six hundred acres.
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In 1883, Colonel Lemuel Grant gave the City [of Atlanta] a later purchase containing [over] 100 acres of beautiful land for park purposes.
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Colonel Lemuel Grant was an early advocate of the Public School System and a member of the first Board of Education elected in 1869.
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Lemuel Grant was a charter member of the Young Men's Library and its first life member.
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From 1860, Colonel Lemuel Grant was a member of Central Presbyterian Church and took an active part in its work.
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Lemuel Grant was married in December 1843, to Miss Laura Loomis Williams, a daughter of Ammi Williams.
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In 1843, Lemuel Grant invested in land in what is southeast Atlanta, paying from $.
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On January 27,1857, Lemuel Grant founded the Atlanta Bank with John Mims, William Ezzard, Clark Howell, Sr.
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In 1853, he and John T Grant headed to New Orleans to work on the Cotton Belt Railroad.
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Lemuel Grant explained that the fortification of Atlanta would be as difficult as that of Richmond, Virginia.
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Lemuel Grant planned a series of 17 redoubts forming a 10-mile circle over 1 mile out from the center of town.
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Lemuel Grant married Laura Loomis Williams, daughter of prominent DeKalb County businessman Ammi Williams, in 1843.
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Lemuel Grant is survived by several descendants who currently reside in the Atlanta area and elsewhere.
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Lemuel Grant donated the land for Lemuel Grant Park, which was named for him.