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Mary Scott Dimmick Harrison (née Lord; April 30, 1858 – January 5, 1948) 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.
Learn about Mary Dimmick Harrison, the wife of the 23rd president of the United States, who supported art, education, and preservation. Find out her biography, marriage, daughter, and death.
Mary Scott Dimmick Harrison (1858-1948) was the second wife of Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the U.S. She married her uncle in 1896, after serving as her aunt's social secretary and losing her first husband.
In 1896, Harrison at age 62 remarried, to Mary Scott Lord Dimmick, the widowed 37-year-old niece and former secretary of his deceased wife. Harrison's two adult children, Russell, 41 years old at the time, and Mary (Mamie) McKee, 38, disapproved of the marriage and did not attend the wedding. Benjamin and Mary had one child together,
21. Mai 2014 · Mary Lord Dimmick was the widowed niece of Caroline Harrison, the First Lady of the 23rd President. She caused a family feud when she married her uncle after his wife's death, and was estranged from his children for the rest of her life.
- Feather Schwartz Foster
Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison (1858-1948) was the daughter of Russell F. Lord (1802-1867) and Elizabeth Mayhew Scott (1828-1889). She is the granddaughter of John Witherspoon Scott (1800-1892) and Mary Potts Neal (1803-1876).
Her duties as first lady were taken over by their daughter Mary for the remainder of the term. In 1896, Benjamin married Mary Scott Dimmick.: 192 Legacy Caroline Harrison's grave marker in Indianapolis, Indiana. Harrison is described as an "underrated" first lady who was more active than most first ladies of her generation.
