Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-07-14
THE HARRISON FAMILY.
| Something About the Domestic Life
of the Republican Presidential NOm-

The family of General Harrison are pleas
antly remembered in Washington from theil
six winters residence here during his recent
Senatorial term. They were kindly, cor
dial people, not able to housekeep here IN
he style OF wealhier Senators, as General
Harrison lived mainly on his salary and con
tributed 10 the support Of a widowed sister
beside. But, though plain in purse, they
had always the prestige of distinguished
family on both SIDES, and toook their Sena.
torial position naturally and easily, too
we'll balanced TO strain for display beyond
heir reach, but receiving their friends and
The calling world in general with well breI
hospitality in their holel or boarding house
parlors.
The FIRST winter they boarded at the Riggs
| House, and there their only son. Russell, in
IN visiting his parents and sister, met his fu.
ture life partner in the person OF Miss Mamie
| Saunders, young blonde beauty, the only
child OF the then senior Senator from Ne
| braska, who was Just home from boarding
school, Some three years later they were
married, and are new residing at Helena,
Montana. They have baby daughter a
few months old. Miss Mary Harrison, the
Generals only daughter, married James R.
Mckee, young merchant OF Indianapolis,
shortly after the marriage OF her brother,
ard little son born TO them last year bears
the rame of Benjamin Harrison Mckee.
Miss Harrison was one Of the most popular
girls in Warrington society, and belonged
10 the set OF which Dora Miller, the Cali.
fornia Senator'S brilliant daughter; Miss Nc
Elroy, niece Of President Arthur; Mis-, Kate
Bayard, Miss Jennie Sheriff. and Miss Viz
gInia Cameron were a few others OF note.
worl by interest Mrs. Mckee is dsvotedy
happy wife and daughter. Her fair young
face will grace the White House net less ef-
fectively than that of its present mistress,
while her mother, Mrs. Harrison, the comely
wife of the General, will be near an precious
10 every patriotic American heart, as a rep
resen,atiye soldiers wife.
There was certain solemn and awful
day in her history in 1862, when President
Lincoln had called for 900, 900 more, " and
her young husband, who had but shortly
returned from three months service at the
front, was called into the Office Of the great
war Governor, Oliver P. Morton, who saw
him passing by, and SAID TO him: "Ben,
these are discouraging days. | don't know
what we are gong TO DO with so many treas
enable elements 10 contend with in our State.
Enllstments are Tagging" Slowly and ten.
tavely he continued: Gould you raise a
company and so out a its head to stimulate
Others by your examPle?" The young man
did not hastily promise, but walked thought.
fully homeward into the presence OF hi,
wife, Rugged his little girl and boy with
more than usual tenderness, and said: "Car
RE, the Governor wants me TO 60 back to
the front, can you and the babies get along
without me for little while again2" Mrs
Harrison, like the patriot she was, said,
with blanched face and choking voice:
eyes, Ben, we will Try to get along some
how if the country needs you"
This was all he waited for, and soon the
Seventeen Indiana Regiment was formed,
with Benjamin Harrison as its Colonel, and
Henry Scott, Mrs. Harrson's brother, as
Captain OF Company A. The remaining
brother was already in the service. Col.
Hsrrison's record you already know, from
the time he entered till he participated in
SheTman's glorious march TO the sea. Cap
tain Scott was also an ideal soldier. At the
batlle OF Resaca he was wounded in the
face, and with the blood seaming from hi>
mouth he was one of a handful OF men who
marched up 10 a rebel battery and captured
its coors. Shortly after the close OF the
war he yielded up his gallant life, a sacu
hce to The hardsh,ps Of battle and Of prison
Mrs Harrison visited this brother when he
was in the hospital al Bowling Green, Ky,
and was with her husband several weeks in
camp in Tennessee, ninistering TO him and
The soldiers OF his command as did hundreds
Of Other wives Of The same heroic mold.
Mrs. Harrison is daughter Of Rev John
Nitherspoon Scott, long time Professor al
Washington College. Penn, and previouly
at Miami University. Oxford, OHIO, and at
College Hill, Cincinnati, at which last.
named place his daughter FIRST met General
HARRISON, when he was a SUDDEN, there. Mrs.
Harrison's mother was the beautiful Mary
Neal, daughter of John Neal, Of English
birth, cashier Of the Remington Bank, and
afterwards of The Bank of Moyamensing. l
have seen portrait OF her painted by one
OF the Psales, which rivals in its patrician
beauty any OF the portraits Of Philadelphia
bellies given in Charlotte Adams fascinating
articles in the April and May numbers OF
The Am0iean Magas sine for this year.
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