Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-10-25
MRS. HARRISON'S LIFE.
A Short Biographical Sketch of the Desd
Woman.

Woman.
WASHINGTON, d. c., October 24.-About
tifty-seven years ago the house Of Rev.
John WltherspOOn Scott, a Presbyterian
divine, President OF the Oxford, Ohio.
female college, was made happy by the
birth Of daughter. The infant daughter
received the name Carrie.
DR. Scott belonged 10 an old Pennsyl-
vania family. When he was a youth in
Philadelphia he met a young lady named
Mary Neal, whose father was bank
cashier. The Meals afterwards removed
20 Washington, Pa. A oOut the same time
Mr. Scott, having completed his theological
studies, went TO Washington, Pa, as an
instructor in the old Washington college.
The old acquaintance was renewed and
soon after Mary Neal, the bank cashiers
daughter, became the wife Of John w.
Scott. professor.
Some forty miles in a northwesterly
direction from Cincinnati is the rural town
Of Oxford. As early as 1896 it was made
the seat Of Miami University, founded un-
der the patronage Of the State.
These important educational interests
subsequently, led 10 the establishment OF
the Oxford Female College and the West
ern Female Seminary. OF the former
Rev. John w. Scott had become President.
There was a student at Oxford at this
time named Benjamin Harrison. The
young student. in the midst of his pursuit
of learning, found himself overtaken in
love, and DR.. Scott's daughter was the
object of his affection.
On October 20, 1883, he there made Miss
Carrie Scott his wife. The happiness OF
their lives, commencing from that date, has
known no dimunition nor change until death
came TO separate them. Their fOndness
for their home and the pleasure they took
i'm the family life and the simple Joys hlled
their horizon and gave an example OF con-
jugal affection that all the world is better
for knowing about
Their honeymoon was passed under the
paternal roof at North Bend, below Gin
cinnati. In the following March the young
couple went to Indianapolis. In ADDITION
10 the care bestowed upon her education,
the young wife was trained in household
duties.
The cash capital at the command Of Ben
iamin Harrison, when he began married
life and the practice Of his profession, was
$500, an advance on lot in Cincinnati, In
herited through his aunt.
On August -, Russell Harrison, their
eldest child, was born. The couple grew
steadily in the estimation of their neigh
bors. and Mr. Harrison achieved fame in
politics. In 1851 General Harrison entered
the Senate of the United States, and Mrs.
] Harrison became a member OF that dlstln-
guished circle, the wives Of Senators.
In her Washington residence Of SIX years
Mrs. Harrison extended her sphere OF use
fulness. Her name was associated wife
noble charities and church work. When
the family came to the White House Dr.
Scott, who had resided here with his wild
owed daughter, Mrs. Russell Lord, went to
live with them.
The first break in the united circle was
the death OF Mrs. Lord, which occurred
December 10, 1889. Mrs. Harrison was
long time recovering from this blow. AT
the beginning Of the grip epidemic Mrs.
/ Harrison shared the fate OF her entire
household. save the President.
Before she was taken down, however,
| she nursed all the rest. Several times al
| terward she suffered again from all the
painful symptoms OF the first attack, and
especially so last spring a year ago.