The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20


vancement by energy and valor. As
lawyer he rose to be a leader OF the
bar. In the Senate he at once took
and retained high rank as orator and
legislator. In the high Office of Presi-
dent he displayed extraordinary gifts as
an administrators and statesman. In
public and private life he set a shining
example to his countrymen. As q tee
timony of respect direct that the flags
on the executive mansion and the sever
al departmental buildings be at half staff |
for thirty days and that suitable mil i |
tary and naval honors be rendered on
the day of the funeral.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March lathe !
neighbors Of Gen. Harrison watched,
according to custom, last night in thu
death chamber. This morning the en-
tire city, public houses and many bus
mess houses are bearing signs OF grief.
The immediate friends of the Harrison
family thronged the residence last
night with proffers of sympathy for the
widow, many bringing flowers.
Russell B. Harrison arrived las. night
from Washington at 10:45. His grief
was beyond control. He had hoped to
reach his father before his death. IL is
bApcClOu OIilOl VAL otAANO "
day or tomorrow.
The funeral, which will be held on
Sunday, will be notable one. The
President will attend, and Grover
Cleveland may also. Rev. M. l..
Haines, who has been the General
pastor for years, will conduct the ser
vices. The Governor asked that the
body lie in State in the Safe House
| and his request was granted. Inter
ment will be in the family lot on Crogr
Hill
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March ID
Benjamin Harrison was The twenty
third President of the United States.
He was born at North Bend, Ohio,
August 20, 1888. He was grandson
= of William Henry Harrison, ninth Pres
ioent of the United States, and a great
t grandson of Benjamin Harrison, signel
of the Declaration of Independence
His father was farmer, AT the age
: of fifteen young Harrison went tt
7 Farmers college, College Hill, Ollo
r and two years later to Miami Uuivel-
9 sity at oxford, Ohio. There he met
j Caroline Scott, whom be married when
3 he was twenty-one. He stud ed laG
| Win DLOAtl "
r and was admitted TO the bar in 1854
He moved to Indianapolis in 1854 anC
was elected reporter of the Supreme
I Court in 1860. In 1862 he enlisted III
l the Seventeen Indiana Regiment, anC
i finally became It's colonel.
, A. Peach Tree Greek, Harrison saw
4 the confederaLes attack Hooker IN al
d unlocked for place. His own command
> was at the foot OF a hill and withou
4 waiting orders he rushed his men t
1 the top of Inc hill and met the Conied
0 crates so CALAMITY that they retreated
D Hooker saw the charge and said tt
Harrison: '"By God, Sir, I'll make you
a brigadier general for this" He kept
his word.
e Ia 1864 Harrison was reelected re-
: porter OF he Supreme Court. From
g 1868, when he declined denomination
y to 1876, his career was non politica
u and was devoted to the practice of Law
e in indianapolis.
: In 1876 he was nominated by the Re
}, publicans for Governor and was defeat
g ed by James d. Williams, the fight o
3 factions in the Republican party caus
: ing his defeat. In 1879 Gen. Harrison
3 was appointed member of the Missis
,, sippi River commission. Two years la
b ter he was elected United States Sena
tor from Indiana. In 1887 he was de-
I feated for second term, d .mocrati(
Il legislature electing Turpie.
u In 1883 Gen. Harrison was elected
r President, defeating Grover Cleveland
He was renominated at Minneapolis il
: 1892 and was defeated by Cleveland.
He returned to Indianapolis after the
i Inauguration of his successor and de
: voted himself to literary and lega
work. His most important work since
leaving the presidency was done in the
0 Venezuelan arbitration case in which
y he represented Venezuela at Paris
In 1893 and 1894, the ex-President de-
: livered course of lectures on consti
7 tutional law at Leland Stanford Uni
9 versity and wrote: "This Country Of
Ours"
Gen. Harrison's first wife died short
ly before the election of 1892. -Four
: years later he married Mrs. Mary Scott
Lord Dimick, who with an infan
daughter survives him. His children
3 by his first wife are Col. Russell b
Harrison and Mrs. Mary Harrison Nc.
= Kee of Saratoga, N. Y.
i SPEKCHLEss AND PARALYzED.-"I hat
yalyular disease of the heart" writes Mrs