Background
Born Ida Marie Honoré in Louisville, Kentucky, her father was businessman Henry Hamilton Honoré. That she met and began to be courted by Frederick Dent Grant, oldest son of United States President Ulysses Simpson Grant.
Born Ida Marie Honoré in Louisville, Kentucky, her father was businessman Henry Hamilton Honoré. That she met and began to be courted by Frederick Dent Grant, oldest son of United States President Ulysses Simpson Grant.
Ida attended Saint Xavier School and Dearborn Seminary in Chicago, and graduated from the Convent of the Visitation in Georgetown, Washington, District of Columbia, in 1874.
lieutenant was during her time in Washington, District of Columbia She was twenty years of age. Frederick Dent Grant resigned from the army in 1881, and assisted his father in preparing the latter"s memoirs. During this time, he was in business in New York City.
In 1889, President Benjamin Harrison appointed him Minister to Austria-Hungary, during which time the entire family moved with him to Vienna.
After Grover Cleveland became president, Grant was allowed to continue in his post. Grant resigned in 1893.
Grant became a New York City Police Commissioner in 1894, an office he held until 1898. When the Spanish–American War started in 1898, Grant was colonel of the 14th New York Volunteers and was promoted to brigadier general of volunteers.
He served in Puerto Rico.
In 1899, Grant was sent to the Philippines for service in the Philippine–American War, where he remained until 1902. In 1901, he was made a brigadier general in the Regular Army. When he returned to the United States, he held various commands and was promoted to major general in 1906.
At the time of his death, he was the commander for the Eastern Division which included the Department of the East and the Department of the Gulf.
He died of cancer, at Fort Jay on Governors Island in New York City on April 12, 1912, and was buried in West Point Cemetery. Later, she moved to Washington, District of Columbia, where she died on 5 September 1930.