Gilpin observer., 1909-05-06

the wedding was SO years of age, is native
of Pennsylvania and was a widow when she
married the ex-president. Her first husband
was Walter Erskne Dimmick OF Samuel
E. Dimmick, attorney general of Pennsylvania.
She was married to the Pennsylvania in 1881
when she was 23 years of age and the young
man died in January of the following year.
Mrs. Dimmick had. therefore, been a widow IA
years when she welded Gen. Harrison early
in April. 1896.
In arranging for his second marriage ex-
President Harrison settled the bulk of his for
tune on his children by his first wife, and
then set about making fortune. In this
he was very successful. for his professional
services were in constant demand and his
fees large. Estimates of his second fortune
at the time of his death ranged all the way
from $1,000 to s40O.0 ZOO. His largest single
fee, reported to be $780, 900, was received for
his services as chief counsel for Venezuela be-
fore the international commission which met
in Paris in June, 1899, to settle the boundary
dispute between Great Britain and Venezuela,
which had for three-Quarters of century been
a source of international complications Fond
as is Mrs. Harrison of her life at Berkeley
Lodge with its opportunities for quietude and
absence of convention, she does not derive
such keen enjoyment from the experience as
does her little daughter Elizabeth, born Feb
ruary 21. 1S97-the only child of the former
president by his second wife. Miss Elizabeth
Harrison. who is now in her eleventh year and
whose latest portrait is presented herewith.
is an exceptionally attractive girl with rare
elusive type of beauty that is almost wistful
Little Miss Harrison has large dark eyes,
similar in their depth of color to those which
contribute much to the distinguished ap-
pearance of her tall and stately mother and
wealth of chestnut brown hair that rolls
back from unusually high forehead. AS
is characteristic of children who have spent
most of their time with older folk and have
played little with other children, this youngest
living daughter of an American president is
quiet and demure, with beautiful manners and
a shy modesty that adds greatly to the charm
of her personality.
OF the other two presidential widows living,
Mrs. Cleveland is best known to the present
generation. The whole life of this lovable
woman. since her gorlhood days. radiated
around the life of the only man the Democrats
have succeeded in putting in the White House
in half century of effort. They welded
in the White House during the first term of
the then New Yorker.
Her triumphs of the first year were abun-
dainty repeated and when once more the pair
retired to private life to take up their home
in beautiful "Westlands." their Princeton
abode, Mrs. Cleveland remained a beautiful
memory to the nation that had genuinely
loved her.
Mrs. James A. Garfield has long survived
her husband. who has now been dead almost
81 years.
In Pasadena. Cal, Mrs. Garfield has sum-
mer home There she spends large part of
her time in the midst of idyllic surroundings
She spends most of her time sewing and read
ing She is sweet and gracious woman.
gentle and kindly and always ready to speak
of the triumphs of her husband.