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Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was the 23rd president of the United States, serving from 1889 to 1893. He was a member of the Harrison family of Virginia—a grandson of the ninth president, William Henry Harrison, and a great-grandson of Benjamin Harrison V, a Founding Father. A Union Army veteran and a Republican, he defeated incumbent Grover Cleveland to win the presidency in 1888 and was defeated for a second term by Cleveland in 1892.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Harrison
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- [S5142] Find a Grave - US Index (Famous), President HARRISON Benjamin 1833-1901 (Veteran) 23rd President of the United States.
23rd United States President, U.S. Senator, Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. Born in North Bend, Ohio, he was the grandson of President William Henry Harrison, and great-grandson of Benjamin Harrison, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He attended Cary's Academy (Farmer's College) near Cincinnati, Ohio and in 1850, he enrolled in Miami of Ohio University as a junior and was graduated in 1852 with honors. He moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, in order to begin a legal practice, and was elected Indianapolis City Attorney in 1857. He became the Supreme Court Reporter in 1860. During the Civil War, at the request of the Governor, he raised the 70th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was commissioned its colonel and commander on August 7, 1862. He led the unit through the end of the war, and was honorably mustered out on June 8, 1865. He was brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers on January 23, 1865 for "ability and manifest energy and gallantry in command of a brigade". He then resumed his law practice in Ohio, and in 1881, was elected as a Republican to represent Indiana in the United States Senate, serving until 1887. At the 1888 Republican Convention, he was nominated as a candidate for President on the eighth ballot. While he lost the popular vote by a narrow margin, he won the electoral vote, defeating incumbent president Grover Cleveland, taking the presidency. As President, he sponsored the first Pan-American Congress, supported the McKinley Tariff Act, and the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. He appointed four justices to the United States Supreme Court, established Coast Guard Academy, expanded the United States Navy from three steel war ships to twenty-two ships, had electricity installed in the White House, and admitted six states to the Union. His wife Caroline died in 1892, making her the second First Lady to die while in office.. He was re-nominated in 1892, but he was defeated by Grover Cleveland. Upon leaving the office, he returned to his law practice in Indianapolis. In the winter of 1901, he developed influenza which progressed to pneumonia, to which he succumbed within a month. He is to date, the only United States President who was the grandson of a former United States President.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/451/benjamin-harrison
- [S10407] Find a Grave - US Index, IRWIN Elizabeth Ramsey Harrison 1810-1850.
Mother of President Benjamin Harrison, she married John Scott Harrison, United States Representative from Ohio and son of President William Henry Harrison, in 1831; she died in 1850 at age 40.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6661710/elizabeth_ramsey_harrison
- [S5142] Find a Grave - US Index (Famous), First Lady SCOTT Caroline Lavinia "Carrie" Harrison 1832-1892 - Wife of President Benjamin Harrison.
Presidential First Lady. She was the wife of Benjamin Harrison, who served as the 23rd US President from March 1889 until March 1893. She was born one of five children and the second daughter of a Presbyterian minister and professor of science and mathematics at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She received a good education and was highly exposed to literature, art, music, and religion. In 1845 her family relocated to College Hill, near Cincinnati, Ohio, where her father became a chemistry and physics instructor at Farmer's College. In 1848 she met Benjamin Harrison, who was one of her father's freshman students and they began a courtship. The following year her family returned to Oxford, Ohio, where her father became the first president of the Oxford Female Institute. She enrolled as a student, studying English literature, theater, art, and painting and in 1852, her senior year, she joined the faculty as an Assistant in Piano Music and graduated that same year with a degree in music. She then moved to Carrollton, Kentucky, to teach music but became ill and returned to Ohio soon afterward. On October 20, 1853, she married Benjamin Harrison and they moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, after he completed his law studies and set up his first practice. After the outbreak of the American Civil War, she joined local groups such as the Ladies Patriotic Association and the Ladies Sanitary Committee, which helped care for wounded soldiers directly and raised money for their care and supplies while her husband was off to war. In 1881 her husband was elected to the US Senate by the Republican-dominated Indiana legislature and the family moved to Washington DC. Her poor health kept her from participating much in social events there, but she supported charities and headed the Garfield Hospital Aid Society. After her husband was elected US President in 1888 and they moved to the White House, she oversaw an extensive renovation, purging it of rodents and insects, laying new floors, installing new plumbing, painting and wallpapering, and adding more bathrooms. She was noted for her elegant White House receptions and dinners. In 1889 she raised the first Christmas tree in the White House and introduced the use of orchids as the official floral decoration at state receptions. A talented artist, she conducted china-painting classes in the White House for other women as it was a popular craft of the time. In 1890 she helped found the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and served as its first President General. In 1891 she had electricity installed but was too frightened to handle the switches, leaving the lights on all night and having a building engineer turn them off each morning. Later that year, she was diagnosed with tuberculosis and the following summer she traveled to the Adirondack Mountains in Upstate New York, as the mountain air was considered beneficial for those suffering from the disease. After her condition became terminal, she returned to the White House, where she died at the age of 60. The Harrisons' daughter Mary Harrison McKee took up the duties of the White House hostess during the last months of his term.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3590/caroline-lavinia-harrison
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- [S5142] Find a Grave - US Index (Famous), LORD Mary Scott Harrison 1858-1948.
2nd Wife of 23rd United States President Benjamin Harrison. Mary Scott Lord was the daughter of Russell Farnham Lord and Elizabeth Mayhew Scott Lord. Her first husband, attorney Walter Erskine Dimmick, (July 4, 1856-January 14, 1882) was the son of the Pennsylvanian attorney-general, but died shortly after their marriage on October 22, 1881. In 1889, she became an assistant to her aunt, First Lady Caroline Harrison. After Mrs. Harrison's death in 1892, Mary Lord married the former President Benjamin Harrison on April 6, 1896 in New York City; he was 62 and she was 37 years of age. They had one child Elizabeth Harrison Walker (1897-1955). Mary Lord Dimmick Harrison died in New York City from conditions related to asthma.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22891/mary_scott_harrison
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