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Mary Dimmick Harrison
Second wife of 23rd U.S. president Benjamin Harrison (–)
Mary Scott Dimmick Harrison (néeLord; April 30, – January 5, ) 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 Caroline Harrison.[1]
Biography
Born in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, as Mary Scott Lord, she was the daughter of Russell Farnham Lord, chief engineer of the Delaware and Hudson Canal (later known as the Delaware and Hudson Railway), and his wife Elizabeth Mayhew Scott.[2]
On October 22, , she married Walter Erskine Dimmick (July 4, – January 14, ), a son of the attorney-general of Pennsylvania and brother of future Scranton mayor J.
Benjamin Dimmick. He died three months after their marriage, leaving her a widow at age [2] A niece of Caroline Harrison, she in moved into the White House to serve as assistant to the First Lady. Sometime aft