Benjamin Harrison Administration - Family Life
Family Life
Harrison had met his future wife while a student at Miami University, where her father, the Reverend John W. Scott, was a faculty member. After a two-year courtship during which Harrison agonized over whether he was ready for matrimony, Harrison wed Caroline Lavinia Scott in 1853. Their first child, Russell Benjamin Harrison (1854–1936), was born the next year and a daughter, Mary Scott ("Mamie") Harrison (1858–1930), was born four years later. The family's daily activities were governed by three things: religion, politics, and the law. Harrison was a deacon and elder in the Presbyterian Church that the family attended in Indianapolis. Before studying law he had briefly considered a ministerial calling. He believed that the church was responsible for the moral character of its members and he organized his life accordingly.
Because Caroline Harrison suffered from tuberculosis, her widowed niece, Mary Scott Lord...
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