The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-06-18
THE HARRISON FAMILY.

A Correction of Some Popular Errors Con-
corning His Immediate Relatives.
L. II. w, in Chicago Inter Ocean.
My attention has been csllad to this para
graph. which appeared in your paper q
week or more ago:
Carter Harrison. who has been doing such
wonderful political work for the President among
some Western delegations, according TO reports,
f. O tall, spare man. OF dashins manners. who
married the beautiful young widow Lytle John
brother who is q good Democrat married the
beautiful young widow Lytlcs beautiful daugh
first husbands brother was the famous Gen.
William II. Lyte, who, according to an Indiana
authority, wrote ~ Am Am Dying, Egypt, Dying"
the Democratic ticket In Kansas City, Mo.
Carter HARRISON 10 Carter Bassett HarrI-
son, the present United States marshal of
middle Tennessee, whose headquarters arc
ut Nashville but his homo is at Nnrfrees-
boro, where. during the war. he became
acquainted with and married the young
widow Lytlc." He was yonth "In his
tceus" when he entered tho service with q
number of his fellow students at Miami
University, Oxford, o., where his brother,
not half brother. the President, had gradu-
ated several years previously. Tho latter
had married the Row. Professor ScOtt's
daughter. and with her rejOiced in tho
birth of her son Russell before the father
had reached his majority.
Itmay be well to say that President Ben
iamin Harrison has not and never had a
half brother. His parents john Scott
Harrison and Elizabeth (Irwin) Harrison,
had four sons who grew to manhood. The
eldest was Archibald Irwin Harrison, who
received an appointment from President
Franklin Pierce to q lieutenancy in the
regular army because of q great and sim
cere friendship which had existed between
himself and Captain James Findlay Irwin
while in MexicOl. who " as an a3d of Gen.
Winfield Sco:t, and died while his COM
mand were still in possession of the city.
Captain Irwin was an eminent West
Pointer. appointed from the Keystone
State, and O nephew of General Findlay,
and also nephew of Governor FIndiay, of
PENNEY lvania.
The lrwins were natives of Franklin
county. near Merceshunglc, and like
President James Buchanan, were of the
bost Scotch-lri stock and near neighbors
as we'll as Preeby terlAns In their church
proclivities. The oldest daughter in the
Irwin family was adopted by her uncle
General tiudlay. when she was quite young,
and grew up and was educated in his FAM
lily at Cincinnati, who're she married the
brilliant young lawyer, William Henry
Harrison. jr, the eldesJ SOD and namesake
of his father, who was the hero of Tippe-
canoe. but died before the latter became
President. She served as mistress Of cere-
monies at the White House during the
month her father-in.law was Pre- sid Ell {.
Her only surviving son, Flndlay Harrison,
at the death of Mira. General Findlay.
came int possession of o handsome share
of hcr large estate Mt Cincinnati. His first
wife Miss Aleton. of the south Caro-
lima family. W hich lived in Cincinnati, and
she was an only cousin of the Gen. William
ii. Lytle spoken Of In the paragraph. who
fell In the battle Of Chiokamauga Sept. 20,
1868 pierced By three bullets, and at the
head OF has charging column" The state