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MARTIN: Mary Agnes Carey is a senior correspondent at Kaiser Health News. That's a nonprofit news service. It's not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente, and she was kind enough to join us here in our Washington, D.C. studios. Mary Agnes, thanks again.
St. Louis Republican, July 24, 1885. Mary Robinson. Mary Robinson was a mulatto slave who belonged to Frederick Dent, the father-in-law of Ulysses S. Grant. Mary lived with Ulysses and Julia and came to know U. S. Grant well, cooking, cleaning and tending to the Grant children. Following Grant's death, Mary Robinson's recollections of him were published in a St. Louis newspaper, and appear in full below: