President Ulysses Grant visited Wood County in 1873.
Rutherford Hayes attended the reunion. He would be the next president but nobody knew it.
Kissing contest at Grant’s reception at Toledo’s Boody House.
General Ulysses S. Grant’s first attempt to infiltrate Wood County was a washout. Wait a minute? Even the remotest Civil War student knows that Grant never fought any battles in Ohio, let alone Wood County. But he did visit our hometown county twice, or what would have been twice, if not for a slight hitch.
In August of 1866, Grant accompanied President Andrew Johnson on his “Swing Around the Circl…
