Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1896 — ISNOW MRS HARRISON [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ISNOW MRS HARRISON

MRS. DIMMICK IS WEDDED TO * . TrfE EX-PRESIDENT. 1 * Ceremony la Modest EDongh to Please the Groom and Beautiful Enough to Charm 'the Bride—Only a Few Gneats Are Bidden. , *, » • Simple Services. The marriage of ex-President Benjamin Harrison and Mrs. Mary Scott Lord Dimmfck look place in St. Thomas* Protestant Episcopal Church, New York, at 5:30 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 bfide was installed in her new home at Indianapolis. This, the most notable wedding'of the 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. Dimmiek 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. Mr 3. Dimtoick wfta given away by her brother-in-law, Lieut. John 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, suffieed to scat the guests. , Gen. Harrison’s ingrained repugnance to anything approaching publicity in relation to his private affairs extended to his matrimonial plana. 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, arid Mrs. Dimmlck was of the same mind. Hence it was that tile few bidden to the ceremony were asked to keep secret the hour. Gen. Harrison left the Fifth Avenue Hotel, accompanied by Gen. Benjamin

F. Tracy, ia 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 fhey awaited the coming of the bridal party. The bride left the home of her Bister, Mrs. John F. Parker, 40 East Thirty-eighth street, at 5:10 o’clock. She was accompanied by her brother-in-law, Lieut. John F. Parker, who pave her away. They arrived at. the .entrance, at 5:20 o’clock and proceeded to the tower room, where the bridal procession form: ei.% 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 aa the bride and groom stepped forward to die altar rail, where (he rector, Dr. Brown, was waiting, Dr. George WUljam Warren, organist of the choron, playing the bridal music from “Lohengrin,** and during the entire ceremony playing very softly Mascagni’s Into rmezso in the “Cavalleria Rustfcana." That portion of the matrimonial service known aa the marriage service proper, the recital of whiah lasts only about fifteen mi notes, was used, and immediately the jessing wee pronounced Ckn. and Mrt^

Harrtson, followed by Mrs. John F. Parker and Gen. Tracy, Mr. TibbStt and if*, Ransdell, Lieut Parker and Mr. and Mrs. Pinchot, walked down the aisle to thei strains of the ‘TTannhauser” march of Wagner, and entering the carriages waiting at the entrance the bridal party was driven to the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Pinchot, 2 Grammercy Park, where light refreshments were served, and where the party donned traveling attire for the trip tot Indianapolis. * Hundreds of valuable presents were received by the couple. Col. E. S. Fergu-

son sent a silver service; ex-Secretary Tfacy's frie"ndly~senfimentß were embodied in a silver fish service; Gen. and Mr*. Morton sent* a silver fruit basket; exSecretary Whitney sent two handsome 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 complex!

ion, 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. Boon after the Wav 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 called to Springfield, HI., to take charge osf 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. J., where for five years Airs. Dimmiek attended a Princeton day boarding school managed by Mrs. Aloffitt, wife of one of the professors of the theological school. Later sho attended the female college at Elmira, N. J. It was in 'Princeton that Mamie Lord became acquafinted with Walter Erskin* Dimmiek. and two years latfr tjiey pan away ana were married, their effort* to reconcile their relatives to the union haring unavailing. Young Dimmiek was the sop of Samuel E. Dimmiek, on* of the leading lawyers of northern Pennsylvania, whose large fortune was left ta his three sons. Their honeymoon was hardly ended before Mr. Dimmiek was stricken with typhoid fever. His young bride nursed him with such’devetion and

tenderness as only th* noblest nature* can pat forth. Day and night'ah* was at hi* bedside, but th* dread disease was relentless, and oa Jan. 18, 1882, three month* after ntnligk Walter Ddmmlck died.

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

MRS. BENJAMIN HARRISON.

BENJAMIN HARRISON. [From his latest photograph—Copyright by Fach, New York.]

HARRISON’S INDIANAPOLIS HOME.