In a message dated 7/17/2000 12:10:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< Mt. McGregor being a place to go to recuperate from illness. >>

Larry,

If Grant croaked there, it don't sound like Mt. McGregor was a very good
place to recuperate.  Did they hush it up? Stuff (or more likely, pickle) him
and pretend he was alive?

Which reminds me....does it strike anybody else as suspicious that Grant died
of throat cancer in 1885, and that Kaiser Friedrich III died of throat cancer
(rumored to have been contracted from a mademoiselle of the demimondaine at
the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869) only three years later, in 1888?

Maybe some enterprising histo presto person ought to do a little
investigative reporting and check into this apparent cancer cluster among
19th century military/cheif executives.   Any volunteers?

Ralph