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Ulysses S. Grant Information Center: Pictures of Julia Grant Cantacuzene and Her Descendants

Information about General and President Ulysses S. Grant and resources for doing research. Includes material suitable for the K-12 audience.

Julia Grant Cantacuzene, June 6, 1876-October 4, 1975

Julia Grant, Fred's Daughter, as a Young Woman and at the Grant Cottage (1885)

Julia Grant Catacuzene
One source says the picture on the left was first published in 1902.

Julia Grant Cantacuzene

Julia Grant Cantacuzene

Mikhail Mikhailovitch “Michael” Cantacuzene, b. 1900, U. S. Grant's Great Grandson

Mikhail Mikhailovitch “Michael” Cantacuzene, b. 1900

This is Prince Michael and Princess Julia's first child, Mikhail Mikhailovitch “Michael” Cantacuzene, born July 21, 1900. Photo taken in Russia.

Julia Grant Cantacuzene, her Son Michael (on the Left) and daughter Barbara ("Bertha").

Picture from 1905. Published in Saturday Evening Post, November-December 1920. Michael born July 21, 1900. Barbara born March 27, 1904.

 

Julia Grant Cantacuzene and Her Wedding Party

Julia and Michael Cantacuzene's Wedding


Julia Dent Grant is on the bride's right.

Julia Grant Cantacuzene

The Library of Congress has this dated as December 23, 1921. The Fayetteville Observer, January 14, 1922, reports that Julia was the Chair of the American Central Committee for Russian Relief, aiding Russian refugees driven out of their country by the Bolsheviks. Her office is in the same room that Grant occupied as Secretary of War, in the old War Building, 532 17th St. NW., Washington, DC. Grant's portrait hangs behind her.

Clarissa Curtis and Michael Cantacuzene (U.S. Grant's Great Grandson) Wedding Announcement

 

Michael Cantacuzene and Clarissa Curtis

San Francisco Daily News, July, 1921

Grant's Great Grandson

Clarissa Curtis and Michael Cantacuzene (U.S. Grant's Great Grandson) Wedding, June 1921

Clarissa Curtis and Michael Cantacuzene Wedding June  1921

Clarissa Pelham Curtis, first wife of Julia and Prince Michael's first child, their son Michael who was born in 1900. This picture is from the Miami Herald, July 14, 1921.

Barbara "Bertha" Cantacuzene, U.S. Grant's Great Granddaughter

 

Barbara "Bertha" Cantacuzene

Michael and Julia Grant Cantacuzene's first daughter, born 1904. From the New York Tribune, November 13, 1921. She was 17 in this picture.

Rodion Cantacuzene, Son of Prince Michael and Clarissa Cantaduzene

Rodion Cantacuzene

Great Great Grandson of U. S. Grant, Son of Prince Michael and Clarissa Cantacuzene, b. Oct. 22, 1928, d. March 16, 2016. 

Barbara "Bertha" Cantacuzene, U.S. Grant's Great Granddaughter

 

Barbara "Bertha" Cantacuzene

Michael and Julia Grant Cantacuzene's first daughter, born 1904. From around the time of her second marriage to William Durrell Siebern, newspaper article dated January 6, 1935, Omaha Sunday Bee.

Barbara "Bertha" Cantacuzene, U.S. Grant's Great Granddaughter

 

Barbara "Bertha" Cantacuzene

Michael and Julia Grant Cantacuzene's first daughter, born 1904. Picture from January 1922.

Julia Grant Cantacuzene

Julia Grant Cantacuzene

Julia Grant Cantacuzene 1907

Julia Grant Cantacuzene

Julia Grant Cantacuzene, 1922

Washington, DC Evening Star May 22, 1922

Julia Grant Cantacuzene, 1928

Julia Grant Cantacuzene

Washington, DC Evening Star May 22, 1922

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Children of Michael and Julia Cantacuzene

Michael Cantacuzene, Barbara "Bertha" Cantacuzene, Zenaida Cantacuzene
Michael Cantacuzene, born 1900. Barbara "Bertha" Cantacuzene, born 1904, and Zenaida Cantacuzene, born 1908

Clarissa Curtis, First Wife of Prince Mikhail Cantacuzene, U.S. Grant's Great Grandson)

Clarissa Pelham Curtis Cantacuzene

Clarissa Pelham Curtis, first wife of Julia and Prince Michael's first child, their son Michael who was born in 1900. This picture is from the Boston Herald July 1921, at the time of her engagement to Michael.

Clarissa Curtis, First Wife of Prince Mikhail Cantacuzene, U.S. Grant's Great Grandson

Barbara Pelham Curtis

Clarissa Pelham Curtis, first wife of Julia and Prince Michael's first child, their son Michael who was born in 1900. This picture is from the Pittsburgh Press, June 19, 1921, at the time of her engagement to Michael.

Michael Cantacuzene (U.S. Grant's Great Grandson) and Clarissa Curtis have Russias Orthodox Wedding the Day Before the "Official" Wedding

"Although the "official" wedding of Prince Michael Cantacuzene and Miss Clarissa Curtis of this city does not take place until tomorrow at Nahant, a religious ceremony in accordance with the Russian Orthodox rites of the Greek Catholic Church was performed this afternoon..." New York Times, June 27, 1921. Picture from the New York Herald.

Michael Cantacuzene (U.S. Grant's Great Grandson) and Clarissa Curtis Wedding

 

Boston Herald, July 28, 1921

Barbara "Bertha" Cantacuzene, U.S. Grant's Great Granddaughter

 

Barbara "Bertha" Cantacuzene

Michael and Julia Grant Cantacuzene's first daughter, born 1904. Picture from newspaper, October 13, 1922. She was 18 in this picture.

Bruce Smith and Bertha Cantacuzene Smith to Divorce, 1933

Irina Cantacuzene Erickson, Daughter of Prince Michael and Clarissa Cantacuzene

Great Great Granddaughter of U. S. Grant, Daughter of Prince Michael and Clarissa Cantacuzene. Born 1925, died of cancer at age 58 in 1984.

Julia Grant Cantacuzene

Julia Grant Cantacuzene

Julia Grant Cantacuzene, Around 1930

From History of the Daughters of the American Revolution of Florida, 1892/1933, volume 1. Jacksonville, Florida, 1933, pp. 259-261. Julia Grant Cantacuzene was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution based on her great great grandfather Noah's service, which is fictitious. 

Julia Cantacuzene and Zenaida Cantacuzene, U. S. Grant's Great Granddaughter

  Julia Cantacuzene and her youngest daughter Zenaida did the unveiling of the Grant equestrian statue in Washington, DC on April 27, 1922.

Michael and Julia Cantacuzene

Probably from 1899. They were married in September of that year.

Julia Grant Cantacuzene Photo from 1901-1910?

Julia Grant Cantacuzene

From an historical article in the Sarasota Herald Tribune, October 21, 2021.

Prince Michael Cantacuzene

Prince Michael Cantacuzene

Prince Michael Cantacuzene, from His Wife's Book: My Life Here and There

Clarissa Curtis, First Wife of Prince Mikhail Cantacuzene, U.S. Grant's Great Grandson

Clarissa Pelham Curtis Cantacuzene

Clarissa Pelham Curtis, first wife of Julia and Prince Michael's first child, their son Michael who was born in 1900. This picture is from the Ogden Standard, May 17, 1921, at the time of her engagement to Michael.

Clarissa Curtis and Prince Michael Cantacuzene, U.S. Grant's Great Grandson

Clarissa Curtis and Michael Cantacuzene

Clarissa Pelham Curtis and Prince Michael Cantacuzene at the time of their engagement.  From the Owensboro, Kentucky Messenger-Inquirer, May 1, 1921. I cannot find any explanation for the hat with the red cross on it. Red cross uniforms from the 1920s included headgear that looked like this.

Barbara "Bertha" Cantacuzene, U.S. Grant's Great Granddaughter

 

Barbara "Bertha" Cantacuzene

Michael and Julia Grant Cantacuzene's first daughter, born 1904. 

Barbara "Bertha" Cantacuzene Engagement, U. S. Grant's Great Granddaughter

 

Barbara "Bertha" Cantacuzene

From the Pamona Republican and numerous other newspapers, May 14, 1925. Announcement of Bertha's engagement to Mr. Bruce Smith, of Louisville, Kentucky. She is 21.

Zenaida "Ida" Cantazucene, U.S. Grant's Great Granddaughter

 

Zenaida "Ida" Cantacuzene Engaged

Michael and Julia Cantacuzene's second daughter, born November 17, 1908, Engaged to John Hanbury Williams. From August 24, 1928 newspaper.

Zenaida "Ida" Cantazucene, U.S. Grant's Great Granddaughter

 

Zenaida "Ida" Cantacuzene

Michael and Julia Cantacuzene's second daughter, born November 17, 1908, Engaged to John Hanbury Williams. From a July 10, 1928 newspaper.

Zenaida "Ida" Cantazucene, U.S. Grant's Great Granddaughter's Wedding

 

Zenaida "Ida" Canatacuzene Married

Michael and Julia Cantacuzene's second daughter, born November 17, 1908,  Married to John Hanbury Williams. From a December 1, 1928 newspaper.