Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-10-29
MRS. HARRISON DEAD.
In Perfect Peace She Passes Away. WEI.
the President at Her Bedside.

In Perfect Peace She Passes Away. VIII
the President at Her Bedside.
Washington, oct %. lao a. m Mr.,
Harrison died at 1:40 a. m. She w.
unconscious and unable to move ~
several hours before the end Ca,
sumption was the cause Of her deatb
The family was present
Oct. l, 1852, the house Of the Rev
John d. Witherspoon Scott. a pnasly.
terrain divine, president Of the Oxfor,
(O) Female college, was made hapnv
by the birth of a daubhter. At fla,
time Andrew Jackson swayed the das.
TIMES Of the country and Emily Donal.
son, wife Of his private secretary. and
Sarah HOrke Jackson, wife of his foster
son, OWNED the honors Of the social
administration of the executive man.
sion. In the presbyterian church AZ
oxford the Rev. Henry Little, a noted
minister of that day, chrstened the IN.
FAINT daughter Carolina Layina Sc,,rt
Upon her marriage Mrs Harrison nm.
pears to have dropped the middle name
Of Scott, and few persons knew thar
she ever bore the appellation Of La.
yinia
Some forty miles in northwestern
direction from Cincinnati O., is The
rural town of oxford. As early as 1924
it was made the seat of Miami univer.
Sity, founded under the patronage II
the state Important educational inter.
ests subsequently led to the establish.
mentof the oxford Female college and
the Western Female seminary. OF she
former Rev John w Scott had become
president
Benjamin Harrison was a student al
oxford. He had passed from Farmers
college into the Miami university and
graduated at the age of is years. The
young student in the midst Of his pur-
suit of learning found himself over
taken in love, and DIR. SCOTS daughter
was the object Of his affection John
Scott Harrison, the fat'.tr Of the stu
dent was too warm-hcarted and liberal
to lay by much of earth's stores, or
even to take a seilish care of what he
received by Inheritance. The patri-
monial estate had diminished in acres
and the family eXchequer in cash dur
Ing his management, which left Ben
iamiu to make his own way, with q
good education rs his capital and the
world as his field for investment. It
was a trying situation to sever tender
ties which held him at oxford for the
International experiences of a student
at law in the office of Bellamy Storer
and Ahram c. Wynn of Cincinnati
lie finished his toilsome journey up
the rugged highway of jurisprudence
and the first thing thereafter wendell
his way back to oxford. On Oct %
1853. he there made Miss Carrie Scott
his wife.
The cash capital at the command Of
Benjamin Harrison when he began
married life and the practice Of his pro-
fossoin was $500 an advance on a lot
in Cincinnati inherited through his
aunt, who married James Finlay. .
soldier Of the war OF 1Si2 Mr. and
Mrs Harrison began their responsible
ity in rooms in an indianapolis boarding
house. In the summer Of 1854 Mrs.
liti ilNph paul Il NINlt 10 LtI pdltitS dt
the old home ar oxford, ana there, on
Au1. II, Russell Harrison, their eldest
child, was born After this event in
the family circle me young mother
having returned in the autumn to In
/ Iauapolis the proud husband rented
small hous. and began life i'm earnest
his faithful ana industrious wife doing
her own hoasowork in a cottage Of
three rooms. The steady gains in prdc-
tice and pecmiaIy rewards in two years
found Mrs Harrison presiding over a
larger and more pretentious house.
Here their second and last cha, Mary
Scott Harrison. was born.
In 1881 Gen. Harrison entered the
senate of the United States. and Mrs.
/ Harrison became a member of that
distinguished circle the wives Of
senators. and later, as the wife Of the
president, the leading lady of the land.
She was a model, motherly woman in
every respect, loved by all who knew
| her