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          <span style="font-size: 14.0pt">Benjamin Harrison, His Life, Family 
          and His Homes</span></b></p>
          <p class="MsoBodyText" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt">
          &nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt">By John T. Marck</span></p>
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          <p class="MsoBodyText" align="justify"><font face="Georgia">The family 
          of the future president has a long history in America, as the 
          Harrison�s were among the First Families of Virginia, with the arrival 
          of an Englishman at Jamestown in 1630, also named Benjamin Harrison.&nbsp; 
          The man who would become president, Benjamin was born on August 20, 
          1833 in North Bend, Hamilton County, Ohio.&nbsp; He was the second of 
          eight children born to John Scott Harrison and Elizabeth Ramsey Irwin, 
          and the great-grandson of President William Henry Harrison.</font><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal">&nbsp;</span></p>
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          <span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal">Growing up, 
          his early schooling was done in a one-room schoolhouse that was 
          typical of the time.&nbsp; At the age of 12 in 1845, he was provided 
          with a tutor that assisted him with college preparatory work.&nbsp; In 
          1847 at age 14, he enrolled in Gary�s Academy, near Cincinnati, which 
          was a newly built farmer�s college.&nbsp; Benjamin attended this 
          college for two years, before transferring to Miami University in 
          Oxford, Ohio, graduating in 1852.&nbsp; While at Miami University, 
          Benjamin joined a Presbyterian church, of which he remained a 
          life-long member. After college he started studying law in the 
          Cincinnati law office of Storer &amp; Gwynne, but before he finished his 
          studies, he returned to Oxford to marry his fianc�e Caroline. &nbsp;</span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" align="justify">
          <span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal">At the age of 
          20, on October 20, 1853, at Oxford, Ohio, Benjamin Harrison married 
          Caroline Lavinia Scott, the daughter of Miami University�s president, 
          Reverend John W. Scott, who also performed the ceremony. The couple 
          would go on to have two children: Russell Benjamin Harrison 
          (08/12/1854 � 12/13/1936) and Mary �Mamie� Scott Harrison McKee 
          (04/03/1858 - 10/28/1930).&nbsp;</span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" align="justify">
          <span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal">After their 
          wedding, the Harrison�s returned to live on his father�s farm where he 
          completed his law studies. Upon the death of an aunt, he inherited 
          $800 and used this money to move to Indianapolis, Indiana in 1854. 
          Here he was admitted to the bar and began practicing law.&nbsp; He 
          also worked as a crier for the Federal Court in Indianapolis, 
          responsible for declaring announcements on the street from the court, 
          for $2.50 per day. &nbsp;</span></p>
          <h1><span style="text-decoration: none">Early Political Life</span></h1>
          <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: justify">
          <span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal">Politically, 
          Benjamin grew up in a Whig household, and was a Whig supporter in his 
          early life. Upon the formation of the Republican Party in 1856, he 
          joined and then campaigned on behalf of the Republican presidential 
          candidate John C. Fremont.&nbsp; Meanwhile Harrison won the election 
          to become Indianapolis City Attorney, a position that paid $400 per 
          year. &nbsp;</span></p>
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          <span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal">Two years 
          later in 1858, Harrison opened his own law firm with another as 
          Wallace &amp; Harrison.&nbsp; In 1860, Harrison was the Republican 
          candidate for a position of reporter of the Indiana Supreme Court, and 
          although this was not a political office, he none-the-less was an 
          active supporter of the Republican Party platform.&nbsp; During the 
          election he debated on behalf of the Republican Party against Thomas 
          Hendricks, the Democratic candidate for governor and future 
          vice-president of the United States.&nbsp; In 1860, upon his law 
          partner William Wallace being elected to county clerk, Harrison opened 
          a new firm with William Fishbank, where he worked until his entry in 
          the US Army. &nbsp;</span></p>
          <h1><span style="text-decoration: none">The Civil War</span></h1>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
          <span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal">In 1862, 
          President Lincoln issued a call for more men to join the Union Army.&nbsp; 
          Harrison, while visiting Governor Oliver Morton, found him distressed 
          over the shortage of new recruits. Harrison asked if he could help 
          out, and the governor asked him to recruit a regiment, but did not ask 
          him to directly serve. Harrison did as he was asked, and recruited a 
          regiment of men in the northern areas of Indiana.&nbsp; Morton offered 
          him the command of the regiment, but Harrison refused for lack of 
          military experience, and instead was commissioned as a second 
          lieutenant.&nbsp; In August 1862, when this regiment left to join the 
          Union army at Louisville, Kentucky, Harrison was promoted to colonel, 
          and his regiment became the 70<sup>th</sup> Indiana Volunteer Infantry 
          Regiment. &nbsp;</span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">
          <img border="0" src="images/5023lawyersoldierpres.jpg" width="377" height="283"></p>
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          <span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal">They first saw 
          action at the Battle of Perryville, and then they performed 
          reconnaissance duty and guarded railroads in Kentucky and Tennessee. 
          On January 2, 1864, Harrison was promoted as commander of the 1<sup>st</sup> 
          Brigade of the 1<sup>st</sup> Division of the XXI Army Corps. He would 
          go on to command at Resaca, Cassville, New Hope Church, Lost Mountain, 
          Kennesaw Mountain, Marietta, Peachtree Creek and Atlanta. He was later 
          transferred to the Army of the Cumberland and saw action at the Battle 
          of Nashville.&nbsp; On March 22, 1865 Harrison was promoted officially 
          to Brigadier General and marched in the Grand Review in Washington, 
          D.C. at the end of the war.&nbsp; He left the military on June 8, 
          1865.&nbsp;</span></p>
          <h1><span style="text-decoration: none">Political Career</span></h1>
          <p align="center">
          <img border="0" src="images/5023campaign%20ribbon.jpg" width="306" height="525"></p>
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          <img border="0" src="images/5023campaignbadge.jpg" width="390" height="470"></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
          <span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal">While still 
          serving in the army, Harrison was reelected as the reporter for the 
          Indiana Supreme Court and served as such for four more years. In 1872, 
          he ran in the Republican primary for governor, but did not receive the 
          support of Governor Morton, who favored his opponent.&nbsp; Harrison 
          lost this bid, but in 1876, he again ran for the nomination for 
          governor and was successful.&nbsp; While popular as to his polices, he 
          lost the election to James D. Williams. In 1880 he was elected to the 
          United States Senate, and after James Garfield�s victory as president 
          in 1880, Garfield offered him a cabinet post, which he declined in 
          order to serve his term as senator.&nbsp; He served as such from March 
          4, 1881 to March 4, 1887, and was defeated in his bid for reelection. 
          &nbsp;</span></p>
          <h1><span style="text-decoration: none">The Presidency</span></h1>
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          <img border="0" src="images/5023President-Benjamin.jpg" width="465" height="672"></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
          <span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal">At the 
          Republican National Convention, Harrison defeated John Sherman 544 to 
          108 to win the Republican nomination.&nbsp; In the election of 1888, 
          Harrison was elected President of the United States by means of a 
          notoriously fraudulent balloting in New York and Indiana.&nbsp; 
          Harrison received 90,000 fewer popular votes that the incumbent Glover 
          Cleveland, but carried the Electoral College 233 to 168.&nbsp; While 
          Harrison made no political bargains to achieve the election, his 
          supporters had given numerous pledges on his behalf. &nbsp;</span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
          <span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal">Benjamin 
          Harrison�s inauguration was held on March 4, 1889, and he served until 
          March 4, 1893.&nbsp; He became known as the �centennial president,� 
          because his inauguration celebrated the centenary of the first 
          inauguration of George Washington in 1789. &nbsp;</span></p>
          <p class="MsoBodyText2" align="justify">Harrison�s presidential 
          administration is best known for its economic legislation that 
          includes the McKinley Tariff and the Sherman Antitrust Act, and for 
          annual spending that reached one billion dollars for the first time.&nbsp; 
          Democrats attacked what was known as the �Billion Dollar Congress,� 
          and used this issue to defeat Harrison�s bid for reelection in 1892.&nbsp;&nbsp;
          </p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">
          <span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: 700"><font size="4">
          Life After the Presidency</font></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal">&nbsp;</span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
          <span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal">Benjamin 
          Harrison�s wife died near the end of his presidential term, of 
          tuberculosis at the White House in October 1892.&nbsp; Following 
          funeral services at the East Room, she was buried from her own church 
          in Indianapolis.&nbsp; Upon Caroline�s death, their daughter, Mary 
          McKee acted a hostess for her father in the last months of his term. &nbsp;</span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
          <span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal">After leaving 
          office, Harrison returned to Indianapolis and on April 6, 1896 married 
          his first wife�s widowed niece and former secretary, Mary Scott 
          Dimmick, in New York City.&nbsp; As she was 25 years younger than 
          Harrison, his two adult children, Russell, age 41, and Mary, age 38, 
          did not attend the wedding as they disagreed with it deeming it 
          inappropriate.&nbsp; Benjamin and his second wife Mary had one child, 
          Elizabeth (02/21/1897 � 12/26/1955). &nbsp;</span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
          <span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal">Benjamin spent 
          his last years working at the First Peace Conference at The Hague, and 
          served as an attorney for the Republic of Venezuela in the boundary 
          dispute between them and the United Kingdom in 1900.&nbsp; Harrison 
          also wrote a book titled, <i>�This Country of Ours,�</i> about the 
          Federal Government and the presidency, published in 1918 after his 
          death. &nbsp;</span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
          <span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal">In February 
          1901, Harrison developed a severe cold and despite treatment of steam 
          vapor inhalation, his condition worsened. He died from influenza and 
          pneumonia on March 13, 1901 at the age of 67.&nbsp; Benjamin Harrison 
          is interred in the Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana, along 
          with both of his wives.&nbsp;</span></p>
          <h1><span style="text-decoration: none">President Benjamin Harrison 
          Home</span></h1>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
          <span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal">The President 
          Benjamin Harrison Home is located at 1230 North Delaware Street in 
          Indianapolis, Indiana.&nbsp; It is open to the public Mondays � 
          Saturdays 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.&nbsp; On Sundays in July, August and 
          December it is open from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m.&nbsp; Admission is $6.00 
          for adults, $5.00 for seniors, and $3.00 for students.&nbsp;</span></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
          <span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal">As Benjamin 
          Harrison was a successful attorney he purchased a double lot on the 
          west side of North Delaware Street at auction in 1867.&nbsp; After the 
          Civil War, in 1874, he began construction of his 16-room Italianate 
          style house, a carriage house, a brick drive and landscaping.&nbsp; 
          The cost for this came to $24,818.67.&nbsp; Except for periods of time 
          from 1881-1887, when he was in the senate, and 1889-1893 when he was 
          president, Benjamin and his wife Caroline, and their two children 
          lived in the Delaware Street home.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
          <span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal">After his 
          presidency, Benjamin returned to Indianapolis a widower.&nbsp; He made 
          several changes to the house that included an addition of an 
          English-Regency front porch, electricity, and updated plumbing.&nbsp; 
          In 1896 he married Mary, and they lived here with their daughter 
          Elizabeth.&nbsp; It would be in this home that Benjamin died in March 
          1901. &nbsp;</span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
          <span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal">Following 
          Harrison�s death in 1901, Mary and Elizabeth lived here until 1913 
          when they moved to New York.&nbsp; Between 1913 and 1937, the house 
          was rented to various families and eventually became a rooming house.&nbsp; 
          In March 1937, the Arthur Jordan Foundation purchased the house and 
          its furniture.&nbsp; This organization used the house as a dormitory 
          for the female students in the Jordan Conservatory of Music, that were 
          formerly housed in a readapted home on the south adjoining lot.&nbsp; 
          When the foundation purchased the home, they did so with the provision 
          that the home would also be preserved and considered a memorial to 
          Benjamin Harrison. &nbsp;</span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
          <span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal">In 1951 the 
          music school housed here moved to Butler University where it continues 
          to be known today as Jordan College.&nbsp; Pursuant to an agreement 
          with Mrs. Harrison, the Arthur Jordan Foundation Trustees opened the 
          Harrison house to the public.&nbsp; In 1964 the United States 
          Department of Interior named the home a National Historic Landmark, 
          and in 1966 the Jordan Foundation created the President Benjamin 
          Harrison Foundation to maintain and operate the house.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Georgia">&nbsp;</span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center">
          <span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: 700"><font size="4">
          The Benjamin Harrison Artifact and Research Collections</font></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
          <span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal">The 
          collections held here include several sub-collections and archival 
          categories. The main collection includes the textile, political, 
          historic photograph, documents, fine arts and furniture collections. 
          The library contains the archival and book materials recorded in the 
          library databases.&nbsp; This includes book, letter, newspaper, 
          microfilm and pamphlet collections.&nbsp; The Harrison family owned 
          the majority of the books.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
          <span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal">The Library at 
          the President Benjamin Harrison Home houses the largest collection of 
          papers for President Benjamin Harrison than any other institution 
          other than the Library of Congress. &nbsp;There is also located here a gift 
          shop, and the President Benjamin Harrison Foundation offers many 
          educational programs. </span></p>
          <p align="center"><b><font size="4">Quick Biographical Facts</font></b></p>
          <p align="center"><font face="Windsor El BT">
          <strong style="font-weight: 400">BENJAMIN HARRISON</strong></font></p>
          <p align="center"><font face="Windsor El BT">
          <strong style="font-weight: 400">23rd President</strong></font></p>
          <p align="center"><font face="Windsor El BT">
          <strong style="font-weight: 400">Term- March 4, 1889 to March 4, 1893</strong></font></p>
          <p align="center"><font face="Windsor El BT">
          <strong style="font-weight: 400">Republican Party</strong></font></p>
          <p><font color="#1a228d" face="Windsor El BT">
          <strong style="font-weight: 400">Birth: North Bend, Ohio, August 20, 
          1833.</strong></font></p>
          <p><font color="#1a228d" face="Windsor El BT">
          <strong style="font-weight: 400">Ancestry: English-Scotch</strong></font></p>
          <p><font color="#1a228d" face="Windsor El BT">
          <strong style="font-weight: 400">Marriage: First Marriage: Oxford, 
          Ohio, October 20, 1853 to Caroline (Carrie) Lavinia Scott, who was 
          born in Oxford, Ohio, October 1, 1832. Caroline died in Washington, 
          D.C., October 25, 1892 and is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, 
          Indianapolis, Indiana.</strong></font></p>
          <p align="center">
          <img border="0" src="images/5023caroline.jpg" width="390" height="488"></p>
          <p><font color="#1a228d" face="Windsor El BT">
          <strong style="font-weight: 400">Second Marriage: New York, New York, 
          April 6, 1896 to Mary Scott Lord Dimmick, who was born in Honesdale, 
          Pennsylvania, April 30, 1858. Mary died in New York, New York, January 
          5, 1948, and is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana.</strong></font></p>
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          <img border="0" src="images/5023mary_lord_harrison.jpg" width="399" height="531"></p>
          <p><font color="#1a228d" face="Windsor El BT">
          <strong style="font-weight: 400">Children: (By first wife) Russell 
          Benjamin (1854-1936); Mary Scott (1858-1930).</strong></font></p>
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          <strong style="font-weight: 400">(By second wife) Elizabeth 
          (1897-1955).</strong></font></p>
          <p align="center"><img border="0" src="images/5023family.jpg" width="300" height="229"></p>
          <p><font color="#1a228d" face="Windsor El BT">
          <strong style="font-weight: 400">Home: Indianapolis, Indiana</strong></font></p>
          <p><font color="#1a228d" face="Windsor El BT">
          <strong style="font-weight: 400">Education: Private tutoring; attended 
          Farmers College; graduated B.A. (1852) from Miami University.</strong></font></p>
          <p><font color="#1a228d" face="Windsor El BT">
          <strong style="font-weight: 400">Religion: Presbyterian</strong></font></p>
          <p><font color="#1a228d" face="Windsor El BT">
          <strong style="font-weight: 400">Occupation before Presidency: Lawyer, 
          notary public, soldier.</strong></font></p>
          <p><font color="#1a228d" face="Windsor El BT">
          <strong style="font-weight: 400">Military Service: Appointed col. in 
          70th Indiana Volunteers (1862); resigned as brevet brig. general in 
          1865.</strong></font></p>
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          <strong style="font-weight: 400">Pre-Presidential Offices: 
          Commissioner for the Court of Claims; City Attorney; Secretary of 
          Indiana Republican Central Committee; State Supreme Court Reporter; 
          Member of the U.S. Senate.</strong></font></p>
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          <strong style="font-weight: 400">Age at Inauguration: 55</strong></font></p>
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          <img border="0" src="images/5023GeneralHarrisonsInauguralQuickstep1889.jpg" width="352" height="454"></p>
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          <strong style="font-weight: 400">Harrison Administration: Vice 
          President: Levi P. Morton of New York, Inauguration March 4, 1889, The 
          Capital, Washington, D.C.</strong></font></p>
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          <strong style="font-weight: 400">Occupation after Presidency: Lawyer</strong></font></p>
          <p><font color="#1a228d" face="Windsor El BT">
          <strong style="font-weight: 400">Death: Indianapolis, Indiana, March 
          13, 1901 </strong></font></p>
          <p><font color="#1a228d" face="Windsor El BT">
          <strong style="font-weight: 400">Cause of Death: Pneumonia at age 67.</strong></font></p>
          <p><font color="#1a228d" face="Windsor El BT">
          <strong style="font-weight: 400">Place of Burial: Crown Hill Cemetery, 
          Indianapolis, Indiana</strong></font></p>
          <p align="center"><img border="0" src="images/5023Grave1.jpg" width="590" height="403"></p>
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          Interesting Facts:</font></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal">&nbsp;</span></p>
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          <span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal">Benjamin 
          Harrison is the earliest President whose voice is known to be 
          preserved.&nbsp; There is a 36-second recording that was originally 
          made on a wax phonograph cylinder in 1889 by Giuseppe Bettini.</span></p>
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          <span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal">Harrison had 
          electricity installed in the White House in 1891 for the first time by 
          the Edison Electric Company.&nbsp; However, he and his wife, Caroline, 
          reportedly would not touch the light switches for fear of 
          electrocution and often would go to sleep with the lights on.</span></p>
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          <span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal">Harrison has 
          had many institutions named in his honor that include the Benjamin 
          Harrison School of Law in Indianapolis, a 1942 United States Liberty 
          ship named the <i>USS Benjamin Harrison</i>, and a United States Army 
          post, Fort Benjamin Harrison, established in Indianapolis. &nbsp;</span></p>
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          <span style="font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal">Copyright � by 
          John T. Marck.&nbsp; The author would like to thank for their 
          information assistance, The President Benjamin Harrison Home, 
          Indianapolis, Indiana; The National Park Service, Benjamin Harrison 
          Home; Wikipedia, relative to Benjamin Harrison and his home; 
          Museumsusa; and The Association of Indiana Museums.&nbsp; Thanks also 
          to the National Register of Historic Places; National Park Service � 
          The Presidents.&nbsp; Information as to biographical facts from �<i>The 
          Presidents of the United States,� </i>by John T.&nbsp; Marck, and <i>
          �The First Ladies of the United States,�</i> by John T. Marck, 
          Copyright � 1993-2008 by John T. Marck.</span></font></div>
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