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Died. Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison, 89, widow of Benjamin Harrison, 23rd U.S. President; in Manhattan. A niece of Harrison's first wife, she helped out as White House hostess during her aunt's last illness, married Harrison in 1896, 3½ years after her aunt's death, three years after Harrison left the White House...
Cheater Hastings Arnold Fellowship to Ralph E. I. Dimmick 3G, of Butler...
Ohio-born Mary Scott Lord Dimmick had been widowed by Lawyer Walter Erskine Dimmick when she married Benjamin Harrison-in 1896, four years after he left the White House, five years before he died. Last week the Senate Pensions Committee favorably reported a bill grant Mrs. Harrison, now nearing 80, a $5,000 annuity such as other Presidential widows have received, but Massachusetts David Ignatius Walsh found it his unpleasant duty" to file a formal protest. Pointing out that Mrs. Harrison never "shared the burdens of official life with President Harrison" and that both her husbands left her trust funds...
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...