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Albert Weston Grant was born on April 14, 1856, at East Benton, Maine, of Scotch-English ancestry, the son of E. B. Grant and his wife, a Miss Stuart of Massachusetts.
His boyhood was spent at Stevens Point, Wisconsin, where in his infancy the family settled as pioneers.
At seventeen, Grant won a competitive appointment as midshipman, and in 1877 graduated from the Naval Academy.
Up to 1898, Grant's career followed routine lines of alternate sea and shore duty, with promotion to ensign in 1881 and lieutenant in 1893.
During the Spanish-American War, he served in the battleship Massachusetts, which operated in the search for Cervera’s squadron and the Santiago blockade, though at the final battle she was withdrawn for coaling.
From September 1898 to 1900, he was in the Machias. Then, after promotion to lieutenant commander, 1900, and two years as an instructor at the Naval Academy, he was in the Far East as the executive of the Oregon, 1902-03, and commander of the Frolic, 1903-05.
While in charge of instruction in seamanship at the Naval Academy, 1905-07, he prepared a book on tactics, the School of the Ship (1907), long used there as a text-book.
After completing the War College course in October 1907, he commanded the Arethusa, 1907-08, and was then, despite his juniority for such duty, selected by Admiral Robley D. Evans as chief of staff in the world cruise of the fleet, 1908-09, in which position he was retained by Evans’s successors.
After his promotion to captain, 1909, he commanded the flagship Connecticut for a year. He was subsequently commandant of the Philadelphia Navy Yard until November 1912 and after brief service in charge of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet was sent to Newport News in July 1913, for inspection work on Texas, then building, which he commanded in 1914-15.
With characteristic zeal, he threw himself into the task of building up the efficiency of boats and personnel, organized a training school for officers, established the submarine base at New London and the Panama base at Coco Solo, and in 1916 strongly urged before Congress increased submarine construction limited to larger types of 750-800 tons.
From July 1917, he commanded Battleship Force 1, Atlantic Fleet, with the temporary rank of vice admiral, and during Admiral Mayo’s inspection tour abroad, September-December 1918, he commanded the fleet in the western Atlantic, receiving the Distinguished Service Medal after the war.
The western fleet was then the backbone of the navy, from which trained personnel were drawn for activities in every field. From March 1919 until his retirement on April 14, 1920, Grant was commandant of the Washington Navy Yard.
After retirement, he engaged in engineering business in Philadelphia, where his death, from a stomach ailment, occurred at the naval hospital. He was buried at Norfolk.
Grant's most notable work in the navy was as commander of the submarine flotilla of the Atlantic Fleet during the pre-war period from June 1915 to July 1917, with promotion to rear admiral in September 1915 and additional duty in charge of all submarines. In 1943, the destroyer USS Albert W. Grant was named in honor of Admiral Grant.
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Grant was prominent in athletics and captain of the crew the Naval Academy.
He had great energy and mental grasp, was “a horse for work, ” possibly over-inclined to the supervision of detail, kindly and humorous beneath a rough and bluff manner, thoroughly dependable, with a talent for mechanics and special knowledge in the fields of electricity, submarines, and torpedoes.
Grant was married, May 6, 1886, to Florence Southall Sharp of Norfolk, Virginia, and had three sons.
