The state capital., 1892-10-29

The president passed the entire day
and night at the bedside of his wife.
He did not enter the Office portion of the
building. Monday morning, during the
two hours when it seemed that
death was imminent, he stood over the
bedside, holding the hand OF his
stricken partner and they bravely
fought back the invader together, and
won short hour of early companion
ship The result of the long strain
upon the president has been matter OF
concern to his friends, but he endured 1t
to the end with the same confidence
and trust that has made him such a
comfort to others in hours of their
deepest distress During the last hours
the entire family kept vigil, knowing
that all hope that the hand OF death
might be stayed was futile.
Biographical.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct. 26.-Caroline Scott
Harrison was born in Oxford, O., in 1854. Her
father is John W. Scott, then professor or the
young ladies' seminary of Oxford. Her early
life was spent at this place. where she was
educated and where she first met Benjamin
| Harrison. He was then junior and was but
| 15 years old. Young Harrison was poor boy
| and was working his way through col
| leQe. They were married October 2. 1853
| Immediately after the close of tha school year,
at the home of DR.. Scott. The young couple
| went to North Bend, O., where Mr.. Harrison
| bagan the practice OF law. From North Bend
| they removed to Indianapolis. Not having the
| funds necessary to keep house, the couple en-
| gagged board at the Roll house. The young
| lawyers practice increased, and in 1850 he was
elected reporter Of the supreme court OF lnd1-
| ana
Twice during the war the loving wife took
| her two children and went to the south to see
| her husband and once nursed him through
spell of sickness. While the husband was at
the front, Mrs Harrison devoted
1ndianapoll'-''a's care a1 |ff1i1
; Through Gen. Harrison's varied career hi
wife was his trusted adviser, but politics wa
y never permitted to interfere with the domestt
. life.
: Mrs Harrison bore bravely the trials Incl
dent to her husbands candidacy OF 1883. ant
, near the close of that campaign, with her fur
{ niture and carpets (but not her patience) Worl
out, Mrs. Harrison remarked to an intimat
| friend: "Well. 1t will be either the Whit
| House or the poor house for us now
l AS the wife of the president she did not e
to Washington untried in it's complex and pc
r culiar social duties AS the wife OF Senator
Harrison she was we'll known among the oil
matte circles.
G Mrs Harrison was model housekeeper
, Her remarkable talents In painting china dec
:: orations and artistic needle work were wei
known and she delighted to keep her hand 1
:, practice at all times even while at the Whit
. House. Her paintings were of unusual meri
+. for an amateur, and for many years she has e1
> hibited her work at the Indiana art exhib
10 held in this city annually.
g Since childhood Mrs. Harrison was membo
J., and active worker In the Presbyterian church
and for many years she had charge o. the in
FAINT department of the First Presbyterian Sun
day school in this city. Sho was also intereste
y" in the various phases of mission work. both 10
n cal and foreign, and confined her labors to n
l. creed and even while in Washington kept u
!. her interest in her work at home.
"Mrs. Harrison said lady who knew he
well, and was numbered among her intimat
. friends, "was modest, retiring woman an
d much 6isliked the glare of public life. 1t ws
O as wife, mother and friend that her life Wa
beautiful. There no happier home, no mol
perfect picture of domestic happiness than tt
Harrison household. first became acquain te
j.. with her upon the board of managers OF the Ii
Z dianapolis orphan asylum Of which she was
l. member for thirty two years, her services b
| ginning in 1860. She took active part in th
70 work from the beginning, and was model
- what she considered hor duty to the little wal
IL that are cared for at that institutio
Is 1t fell to her as it did to ii
other members to visit the asylum one mont
in each year. During this month Mrs. Harr
son visited the asylum never less than thr
- times a week and some months would CO
= every day. When her husband was elected al
ye it became necessary for the family to remo'
he to Washington she asked leave to resign fro
G the board but this the board would not perm
her to do. 1t remembered that to her as mu'
~ as to any other person it was indebted for t.
wonderful success of the a9yum.
After Gen. Harrison was elected Unit
States senator she still had the welfare of T.
al asylum at heart. She remembered that b
es | summers would be spent In Indianapolis, al
"A | that she would still be allowed to visit I
III | ASYLUM. This programme she always carrf
al | out.
Mrs. Harrison enjoyed having her chos
friends about her. but disiked throng, Al
was In no sense a society woman.
! Maritime Casualties.