Word: dimmick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are only four widows of Presidents now living. Last week one of them appeared in a Manhattan police court. Of the four, one is Mrs. Wilson, another is Mrs. Roosevelt, another Mrs. Preston (formerly Mrs. Cleveland) and the fourth is Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison...
During the first Mrs. Harrison's lifetime, her niece, Mrs. Dimmick (Mary Scott Lord), the widow of a lawyer who had died at sea of typhoid on their honeymoon some ten years before, stayed at the White House with her aunt and the President for some two years...
...after President Harrison's retirement, he married Mrs. Dimmick in Manhattan. He was then 62, she about 38. The following year a daughter, Elizabeth was born to them. In 1901 Mr. Harrison died. Mrs. Harrison and the President's children by his first marriage then entered into litigation over the Harrison estate of some...
...Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison, second wife of Benjamin Harrison, was never mistress of the White House. Her maiden name was Lord and she was a widow at the time of her second marriage. The first Mrs. Benjamin Harrison died during her husband's term of office. The second Mrs. Harrison (Mrs. Dimmick) was a niece of the first Mrs. Harrison, and 35 years the junior of the ex-President. A week before their marriage in 1896, General Harrison (a Presbyterian) was converted to the Episcopal faith. His son and daughter by his first marriage openly disapproved...