The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-29
GENERAL HARRISON'S CHOICE
Mrs Dimmick Directed the Household
Affairs of the White house.

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Mis- Dimmick Directed the Household
Affairs of the White house.
The dispatches have already announced
the engagement of ex-President Harrison
and Mrs. Mary Scott Dimmick. 1t APP
pears from kilograms received by the
Chicago papers from New York that on
Friday afternoon General Harrison's pri-
vate secretary made the announcement at
the Fifth Avenue hotel. New YORK,
where the ex-president is staying, that
General Harrison would make an impor-
tant statement a few hours later. This
announcement drew a large crowd of pol
iticians and others to the corridors of the
hotel in the evening.
Many of the politicians expected that
General Harrison would make declara-
ton as to his candidacy for president and
were disappointed when they heard that
the general talked of matrimonial affairs
instead of politics.
At the appointed time Mr.. Tibbitts, the
generals private secretary, made the fol-
lowing statement in his room, where he
received the members of the press:
General Harrison authorizes the an
nouncement that he and Mrs. Dimmick
are engaged to be married, and that the
marriage will not take place until after
Lent"
When the secretary finished reading the
announcement he refused to say any
thing further other than that eX-
President Harrison would probably leave
for Indianapolis on Monday. returning to
Washington in time to argue the Stan
ford lawsuit.
Mrs Mary Lord Dimmick is the daugh-
ter of Russell F. Lord, who was general
superintendent and chief engineer of the
Delaware & Hudson Canal company. He
had brother John, who, As years ago,
was also a prominent citizen of Homes
dale, Pa. John Lord had married a Miss
Neal. Her sister was the wife of DIR John
Scott, a Presbyterian preacher, who had
two bright daughters, Carrie and Lizzie
The former of these in the '40s was being
wooed by young Lawyer Benjamin f.
Harrison. About that time the two Scott
/ girls came to Honesdale to visit their
aunt. Mrs. John Lord.
While they were here young Harrison
visited Honesdale and pressed his suit for
the elder Miss Scott's hand with such fer
vor that their engagement was made
here. He afterwards married her. Russell
+. Lord was a widower with two sons at
the time the western girls We're visiting
at his brothers. lie was more than dou-
BILE the age of Lizzie Scott He met her
and fell in love with her. Their wedding
a social event still memorable in
Northwestern Pennsylvania But the
match was ill-assorted. The lives of both
were made unhappy by it. Three chill
dren were born to them-Walter Scott.
Mary and Lizzie. Mrs. Lord, at about the
close of the civil war, left her husband,
taking her two daughters, and returned
to her fathers home in Indianapolis. The
son died 25 years ago.
Mrs. Lords daughters grew to young
womanhood in the West and about Is
years ago came with their mother TO
Honesdale to spend the summer with
friends. Chief among these was the Dim
mick family. Benjamin Dimmick a son Of
the family, married Mary. He lived but
three months. He left his widow a large
fortune. Mrs. Dimmick passed the sue
ceeding year of her widowhood in retire
ment with her mother at Indianapolis
when the election of her uncle to the
presidency brought the family into prom
inence.
Mrs. Dimmick's presence in Washington
added much to the charm of the social
life of the last administration. She was
extremely popular, and scarcely less es-
teemed than Mrs. Harrison, whose gra-
ciousness and sweetness of manner won
the friendship of all who met her. Mrs
Harrison died Oct. 25 1892, and through
the long and tedious illness her devoted
husband was greatly assisted in his pa
tient vigils at her bedside by Mrs. Dim
mick.
During the life of Mrs. Harrison Mrs
Dlmmlck practically governed Mr.. Harri.
sons household in Indianapolis and di.
rected the household affairs of the White
house during the period that Mrs Har,
rison was Ill. At the state functions shs
received with Mrs. Harrison. Mrs. Dim
mick is 40 years of age. tall and a strik
ingly handsome brunette.
Mrs. Dimmick resides in New York al
No. 40 East Thirty-eighth street. Her sis
ter is the wife of Lieutenant John +. Par.
ker of the navy.
1t is understood the step was not taker
by General Harrison without consuItInc
his children. of whom he is very fond.
The ceremony will take place in NeA
York, but beyond this decision no def
mite arrangements for the wedding hav,
been made. General Harrisons privat,
secretary said IL had not been decide.
whether the wedding would be private Of
public. 1t was said that the ceremon,
would take place in the Fifth Avenu.
Presbyterian church or in st. Thomas
Episcopal church. Mrs. Dimmick is an
Episcopalian and General Harrison /
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