No canary deaths were reported following this month’s presidential inauguration.
That, unfortunately, wasn’t the case more than 140 years ago when a former Vancouver soldier was the focus of similar festivities.
As we first noted eight years ago, Capt. Ulysses S. Grant arrived at the U.S. Army’s Vancouver post in 1852 as regimental quartermaster and was elected president 16 years later.
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