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Mary Scott Dimmick Harrison (née Lord; April 30, 1858 – January 5, 1948) was the second wife of Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States. She was nearly 25 years younger than Harrison, and was the niece of his first wife.
- Mary Scott Lord, April 30, 1858, Honesdale, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- January 5, 1948 (aged 89), New York City, U.S.
Mary and Benjamin married on April 6, 1896. They had one daughter Elizabeth born February 21, 1897. Mary lived in Indianapolis at the Delaware Street home until 1913. She died January 5, 1948, in New York City and is buried at the Harrison family plot in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis.
Description: After Benjamin Harrison's wife Caroline died and he lost his 2nd presidential bid in 1892, he returned to Indianapolis to his Delaware Street home. Four years later he married the 37-year old widowed Mary Scott Lord Dimmick (1858-1948), niece and former assistant to his first wife.
May 21, 2014 · Benjamin Harrison and his second wife, Mary Lord Dimmick created a near-scandal when they married, and the family never forgave them. The Twenty-Third President’s Menage. President Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President, sandwiched between the non-successive terms of Grover Cleveland.
- Feather Schwartz Foster
Sep 18, 2014 · At Loon Lake, a Concord coach, pulled by four horses, took the party several miles to a cottage that served as a summer residence. Besides the President and First Lady, the party consisted of Mrs. Mary Dimmick (Mrs. Harrison’s niece, and, later on, Mr. Harrison’s second wife); Mary’s sister Lizzy and her husband, Lieutenant John Parker ...
6, 1896, he married Mary Scott Lord Dimmick, Caroline Scott Harrison’s widowed niece and former secretary. They had one daughter, Elizabeth Harrison, born February 21, 1897. Harrison died on March 13, 1901. Twenty-five years Harrison’s junior, Mary Lord Harrison survived her husband by nearly 47 years, dying on January 5, 1948.
She died in 1948 and is buried in the Harrison family plot in Indianapolis, Indiana. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Harrison, Mary Scott Dimmick (1858–1948)Second wife of Benjamin Harrison, 23rd president of the U.S. Name variations: Mary Scott Lord; Mary Scott Dimmick; Mary Lord Dimmick; Mary Lord Harrison; Mary Dimmick ...
