The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-06

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rairs2Fuse portrait OF NJ Harrison. sho
Ioag Survived her husband. Dwelling "a
tsse Old h0ssse 81 Serta Bend ansil her
death, xhscn occar~ed before Eax personal
acuas s8tsnc~ stEh tie nlsce beSxn. She
wzs, as hgv@ Ings 3ssex. fa1g1ag oy tsIs
miniatures referred 10. . woman 81 mach
personaI beauty, and those y no had knosn
her sp0xe Of hep character as iovely ore
A sister % Mrs Harrison was married 10
Judge Short. another early settler a.
NORTH Bend. who lived a5ou: two miles
ssove Gen H2rri<on's home. know lis
tie 90 not hing OF Judge shorts history.
although ito OF his sons vet renamed n
possession af bls large and VI Gabis e.
tate Saen | vent 10 reside At North Bend.
he died some years before a brother q
Judge Short who-e com a 5s.aon regneua-
Der 70 have seen, wss. unless ar memory
is ri tsaif one Of our earlier ministers 70
France
On the Kentucky side u the ohio-shas
il, ~ North Her6, K, nearly opposite
the site Of For: Finney--swo or three
miles below the North Bend railway sta
ton. bets IA seventy-gve and i00 years
ago. lived Capt. John Brown. "A Patriot
and Soldier OF the Revolution" as his
tombstone ia the little family graveyard
on his estate describes aim, and the IN
scrlption adds: lie sustained through
life the sentiments of a true Republican"
He may have been 9 Democrat in those
days, fancy, for ali thatD Like his fell
ios soldier aud nssghbor, Capt. Jacob
P.att--iiev we're both from New Jersey
he originally (ahoui 1880 settled and
resided ~ North Bend. on the Ohio
side, before buying or taking Up"
lands Virginia military iandsi IN
Kentucky. Capt Pats old homestead,
Federal Hail. | may mention, is fes
mics below on the Kentucky hilltop. OPP
posise Lawreneeburg. Ind, He vas
magistrate and judge. and IL Is said that
II became his office 10 pass the first SEN
tenee OF death ever legally recorded in
Kentucky. Only 800 or so yards above
bis house lie his simple headstone. bearing
this remarkable inscription: A Soldier
Of the Revolution and s Sol der OF the
Cross" Tie Sas grandfather of the late
Col DOM Psatt, and an original member
OF the Society OF the Cinesnnatl; tie had
been, l VAS tod, a. one time on Washing
tons stat
Capt. Brown VAS a man of somewhat
eccentric character, and some humorous
and one or two pathetic anecdotes have
been told OF him. | only mention him
here, however. because his daughter Clara
thus ailyiug him, as Il resulted, with The
Harrisons, became during the flrst decade
of this century the wife of Gen Zebulon
NJ Pike, an officer IN the United States
army. who subsequently. al the battle of
Little York in Canada, during the last
war with England f" tell, MORALLY wound
ed by the explosion of magazine. while
entering the British Qualifications victor
lous. Some time earlier ae was engaged
for several years on an exploring expedl-
ton in the far West. where the par of
explorers were for many months lost. or
supposed to be lost, probably al that time
visiting the mountain called after him,
Pixies Peak
wish | might stop 10 repeat several an
ecdotes told of the relations between Gen.
Pike and his father-in-law, Capt. Brown.
The latter had bitterly opposed his daugh-
ter's marriage to the young officer. which
took place some years prior 10 the explor-
ing expedition referred TO. Finally. recog-
nizlng that love was too strong for him,
the marriage " as inevitable, and learning
that the wedding day had been liked upon.
he did not quite consent, bat he Instructed
a neIgabor friendly TO the lovers. and
through whom their correspondence had
been carried on flor young Pike, then only
a lieutenant. had been driven from the
place by the fiery old patriot and soldier
of che Revolution" and was a eanished
mani, 10 have the couple married and let
them 60 their way, using edlessiy pro-
fame emphasis in giving this verbal COM
mission. When the day was at hand he
neigh borhood, and did not reappear until
the wedding festivities were over and the
bride and bridegroom had departed. They
afterwards, however, returned 10 North
Bend, and at least occasionally resided to-
gelher there with the father. Mrs. Pike
herself remaining there during her bus
bands long absence In the Western wilder
ness, and also during the war of 1872
Two British days were captured at Little
York: OF these ona was buried with the
body Of Gen. Pike, AZ Sackett's harbor, n.
Y. | have been told; the other was taken
to his widow, who thereafter made her
home on her fathers estate, which she
inherited, a, North Bend. KY, where she
is buried in the little family graveyard
near her father. John Cloves Symmes
Harrison. the eldest son Of Gen. Harrison
the was born at Cincinnati in l79s). also
sleeps in the same Enclosure. His wife.
Csarissa who was the daughter OF Gen.
Pike, lies there beside him.
A grandson Of Gen. Harrison, bearing
his fall name-Wiiiiam Henry Harrison
now occupies the old Pike homestead IN
Kentucky living in a long, low brick
house which Mrs. Pike built after her
fathers death. Visiting the place many
wears ago | was shown portrait of Gen.
Pike painted soon after his return from
bis far Western exploring expedition. One
of her grana-nieces long ago told me that
Mrs. Pike kept the British dag captured at
the time of her husbands death as q pre-
ciouS memento, and that occasionally for
many years ii might be seen waving from
window ia the old kentucky home--not.
however, rs the proud trophy of foregone
triumph. but simply togiye II judIcioas
airing
Gen. Pike and his widow seem 10 have
been highly regarded by the early Western
people. For half - century aud longer II
boats Gen. Pike or Lady Pike In their
honor. / remember many magnificent
boats 81 the old Cincinnati & Louisville
mail line thus called: Gen. Pike No. /,
Gen. Pike No. ?, Lady Pike No. /, Lady
Pike No. ? etc, there being successive
generations, so TO SPEAK. OF these steam
boats the finest Of their day. And for
many years, | have been told, ii was .
custom Of these boats on passing the Old
Pike Harrison homestead in Kentucky to
fire 8 cannon from the deck. thus salutIng
the widow 81 Gen. Pike,
II was NV good fortune 20 know John
Scott Harrison personally during the first
SIGHT or ten years q M residence at North
Bend HIS house. which | once or twice
visited. wss. as ] have said, just under
Fort Hal work Of she nopnd-builders
nearly i've miles below his fathers home
stead ~ North Bend. During the latter
wears Of his life being 8 ~Edower be lived
there much Of the tsIns alone. though
often hts daughter and one or more of his
granddaughter and rrandsons lived with
him. Al an earlier period, although
never. ] believe, politician. ne had served
one or two terms in congress. but al the
time knew him hts life Shs that OF a
Quiet country gentleman and farmer lie
was a man II kindly. unsssurning man
ner. wno. Az fancy. resembed his father
t5eu Harrison. somewhat IN PERSON AMI
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