Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1896 — IS NOW MRS.HARRISON [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IS NOW MRS.HARRISON

MRS. DIMMICK IS WEDDED TO THE EX-PREbiDENT. Ceremony Is Modest Enough to Please the Groom and Beautiful Enough to Charm the Bride-Only a Few Gueata Are Bidden. Simple Services. The marriage of ex-President Benjamin Harrison and Mrs. Mary Scott Lord Dimmick took place in St. Thomas' Protestant Episcopal Church. New York, at S3O o’clock Monday afternoon, the Rev. Dr. John Wesley Brown officiating. Two hours later they had left New York, and before noon the next day the bride was installed in her new home at Indianapolis. This, the most notable wedding of rhe year in the light of its interest for the whole country, was the quietest. Not more than thirty persons saw the ceremony. and fewer still were bidden to the post-nuptial collation. Only the immediate relatives of Mrs. Dimmick and the lifelong friends of Gen. Harrison who had borne with him the burden of a national government were there. All the members of his immediate family were conspicuously absent. Mrs. Dimmick was given away by her brother-in-law, Lieut. Jahn F. Parker. U. S. N„ and Gen. Harrison was supported by Gen. B. F. Tracy. ex-Secretary of the Navy. Two ushers. E. F. Tibbott, the ex-President’s private secretary, and Daniel M. Ransdell, sufficed to seat the guests. Gen. Harrison's ingrained repugnance to anything approaching publicity in relation to his private affairs extended to his matrimonial plans. It mattered not to him that the whole country would read eagerly every detail touching the marriage of one who had walked so many years in the public eye, and who had served in office at the head of the nation. He want-

ed a quiet wedding, and Mrs. Dimmick was of the same mind. Hence it was that the few bidden to the ceremony were asked to keep secret the hour. Gen. Harrison left the Fifth Avenue Hotel, accompanied by Gen. Beujamin

F. Tracy, in a close carriage, at 5 o’clock and was driven to Rev. Dr. Brown's house on Fifty-third street. They passed through the house to the vestry, where they awaited the coming of the bridal party. The bride left the home of her sister, Mrs. John F. Barker, 40 East Thirty-eighth street, at 5:10 o’clock. She was accompanied by her brother-in-law, Lieut. John F. Parker, who gave her away. They arrived at the entrance at 5:20 o’clock and proceeded to the tower room, where the bridal procession formed. They proceeded to the chancel, where Gen. Harrison, accompanied by his groomsman, Gen. Tracy, received his bride. The ushers, standing to one side, faced the altar as the bride and groom stepped forward to the altar rail, where the rector, Dr. Brown, was waiting, Dr. George William Warren, organist of the church, playing the bridal music from “Lohengrin,” and during the entire ceremony playing very softly Mascagni’s intermezzo in the “Cavalleria Rusticana.”

That portion of the matrimonial service known as the marriage service proper, the recital of Which lasts only about fifteen minutes, was used, and immediately the blessing was pronounced Gen. and Mrs. Harrison, followed by Mrs. John F. Parker and Gen. Tracy, Mr. Tibbitt and Mr. Ransdell, Lieir. Parker and Mr. and Mrs. Pinchot, walk'd down the aisle to the strains of the “Tannhauser” march of Wagner, and eitering the carriages waiting at the entnnce the bridal party was driven to the esidence of Mr. and Mrs. Pinchot, 2 Gram,mercy Park, where light refreshments vere served, and where the party donned traveling attire for the trip to Indianapolis. Hundreds ofvaluable presents were received by the ouple. Col. E. S. Ferguson sent a stiver service; ex-Secretary Tracy’s friendy sentiments were embodied in a silver ish service; Gen. and Mrs. Morton sent I silver fruit basket; ex-

Secretary Whitney «ent two handsoma compotiers for bonbons. The present of the bridegroom was a magnificent string of pearls. The Bride's Life Story. Mrs. Harrison, who is a small but very graceful woman, of rather dark complexion, and of a very bright and attractive appearance, is related to Gen. Harrison through his late wife, who was her aunt. She was born in Princeton, Pa., where most of her younger life was spent. Her mother's marriage to Russell F. Lord proved an unhappy one. Soon after

the war Mrs. Lord left her husband and joined her father, Dr. Scott, at Indianapolis, Ind., the two daughters going with her. After the return of his daughter to his home in Indianapolis Dr. Scott was caljed to Springfield, 111., to take charge of a Presbyterian institution that is now known as Concordia College. Mrs. Lord and her children accompanied him. In 1875, when Dr. Scott left Springfield, Mrs.

Lord, with her two children, moved to Princeton, N. .1., where for five years Mrs. Dimmick attended a Princeton day boarding school managed by Mrs. Moffitt, wife of one of the professors of the theological school. Later she attended the female college at Elmira, N. J. It was in Princeton that Mamie Lord became acquainted with Walter Erskine Dimmick. and two years later they ran away and were married, their efforts to reconcile their relatives to the union having proved unavailing. Young Dimmick was the son of Samuel E. Dimmick, one of the leading lawyers of northern Pennsylvania, whose large fortune was left to his three sons. Their honeymoon was hardly ended before Mr. Dimmick was stricken with typhoid fever. His young bride nursed him with such devotion and tenderness as only the noblest natures can put forth. Day and night she was at his bedside, but the dread disease was relentless, and on Jan. 16, 1882, three months after marriage, Walter Dimmiek died. After the death of her mother, in 1890, she went to New York city to live with her sister, Mrs. John F. Porter. She spent some considerable time at the White House during Gen. Harrison’s administration, and was a great favorite with her aunt, the kite Mrs. Harrison.' General Harrison’s Career.

Gen. Benjamin Harrison was born in North Bend, 0., in August,' 1833. He is a grandson of W. H. Harrison, eighth President of the United States. After graduating from a law school in 1853 he was married in Indianapolis to the late Mrs. Harrison. In 1860 he was elected official reporter of the Supreme Court of Indiana. In 1862 he raised a regiment, the Seventieth Indiana, went into the field

as colonel and served through a number of important engagements with distinction. He was breveted brigadier general before the close of the’war. On his return to Indianapolis at the close of the war he was re-elected official court reporter. One year later he returned to the practice of law, and in 1876, when the regular nominee withdrew shortly before the election, the nomination was forced upon Gen. Harrison for the governorship. He was defeated by a narrow majority. In 1880 he was elected to the United Statqs Senate from Indiana and served one term, and in 1888 he was ejected President of the United States.

SAINT THOMAS’ PARISH CHURCH. (In which Ex-President Harrison was married.)

BENJAMIN HARRISON. [From his latest photograph—Copyright by Pach, New York.)

MKS. BENJAMIN HARRISON.

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