The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-05

til now, with the wedding imminent,
the public mind is absorbed with the
topic and has little room for anything
else This is not surprising. Marriage
always attracts attention, even when
the parties most concerned have no es-
pecial claim upon public notice. How
much more important, then, the inn
pending occasion, when distinguished
soldier and statesman, who has ably
and honorably filed the highest office
in the land leads to the altar and takes
as his wife a lady of such high social
position and personal worth are COM
bined in the bride to be. Another sig
nificant fact connected with the event
is that General Harrison will be the
first ex-president of the United States
who has married after his term of Of
flee. Lincoln, Grant Garfield and
Hayes were survived by their wild
ows The case of Mr.. Harrison is
unique.
But Mr.. Harrison is not the leading
feature of the approaching ceremonial,
for to-day as has been the case ever
since the world began, the real interest
and curiosity and sympathetic expect
ancy center in and cling around the
little woman who is the parsonage of
the hour. The feminine part of the
public mind especially is busy with its
queries and its wonderings, and even
the ostensibly uninterested male finds
time to gossip with his wife or his
sweetheart or his mother concerning all
the details of this great affair which
form a social standpoint and judged
upon its intrinsic merits will be by all
odds the most important that has &C.
CURED I'm many years.
The questions always uppermost
when the wedding is discussed COM
prise an inquiry as to where. when and
how the little god accomplished his eff
fective work. but that is Information
w hp or n fn
IL is rather more relevant here to
treat of the life and personality of the
woman whom Mr. Harrison has
chosen as his companion for the COM
ing years.
The lives of Mrs. Dimmick and Mr..
Harrison have been singularly inter-
woven. and one who studies the stars
might find in this fact much that he
could construe into a long ago portent
of the present alliance.
Mrs. Dimmick was born at Homes
dale. Pa. Her father was Russell F.
Lord, who was general superintendent
and chief engineer of the Delaware &
Hudson Canal company at Honesdale,
Pa, which was at that time the head
center of the great corporation. There
was also a John Lord. brother Of Rus
sell Lord, who also held a position of
prominence with the same company.
This John Lord had married a Miss
Neal, daughter of the cashier of the
Honesdale bank. Her sister was the
wife of DIR. John Scott, Presbyterian
preacher. who lived in Indianapolis.
DIR. Scott had two bright, handsome
daughters. Caroline and Elizabeth. At
this time Miss Caroline Scott, or Car
RE. as she was called, was being wooed
by young lawyer of indianapolis.
This was along in the fortes. While
the girls were visiting their aunt, Mrs.
John Lord, at Honesdale the young
~ n1i a 10 var 10, ON fr,I
dale and renewed his attentions to Miss
Carrie.
HARRISON'S FIRST WOOING.
While in Honesdale the sutton urged
his case with such perslstency and fer
Vor that decision i'm his favor was
handed down. a binding engagement
was made and Benjamin Harrison. all
unconscious of future honors, went
back TO Indianapolis with a heart full |
of happiness that was founded on
the promise that had been made TO
him.
At the time these handsome western |
girls visited the home of his brother |
Russell +. Lord was a widower, with |
two stalwart sons. His age was more |
than twice that of Lizzie Scott but he |
met her and fell in love with her and |
proposed for her hand. She was a |
dashing young woman, who would |
have been attractive in any circle of |
society. Her lot at home was humble, |
being that of a poor PRESBYTERIAN |
preachers daughter. Mr. Lord had |
wealth and every luxury to offer her, |
and he was strenuous i'm his wooing, so |
she accepted him. The marriage did |
not prove to be happy one. There |
was dissensions and much bitterness |
The match was an III assorted one, and |
II was an open secret that the home of |
the Lords was not a harmonious one |
Three children-Walter Scott. Mary |
and LiZzie-were born to them At /
about the close OF the war Mrs Lord |
left her husband, and. taking her two |
daughters with her. returned TO her |
fathers home in Indianapolis. The |
son, Walter, remained with his father /
at Honesdale, where he died some IA |
years ago. His father. Russell Il. Lord /
died a few years previously. His |
brother John. who when a young man
had been such a phenomenal success
had become a total wreck through
drunkenness and vicious habits. His
unfortunate family went TO ruin as
well. the mother dying totally blind at
the home of her daughter. who had
married a canal boatman.
The old man himself is said TO be
still living among the rocks of the
Delaware valley, overlooking the ca
nal. OF which he was formerly chief
owner.
After the return OF his daughter
Mrs. Loru, win her Two daughters to
his home in indianapolis, DR. Scott was
called TO Springfield. H.. to take charge
OF a Presbyterian institution that is
now known as Concordia college. Mrs
Lord and her children accompanied
him. and all lived together in a pleas
ant home on Seventh street
For some reason the Presbvterians
failed 10 make a success of this college
and in 1874 the Lutherans took hold AZ
IL and reorganized il.
Previous to his career in Springfield
DR. Scott had been president OF Ohio
Female Seminary at College Hill Ohio |
where General Harrison was receiving
his education. and IL was here that |
the future president first met Miss
Caroline Scott. who afterward became !
his wife
When Dr. Scott found that the col
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