After Caroline Harrison's death of tuberculosis in 1892, while Harrison was in office, he married his wife's widowed niece and former secretary Mary Scott Lord Dimmick (1858-1948) on April 6, 1896. They had one daughter, Elizabeth Harrison (1897-1955).
Mary Dimmick Harrison (April 30, 1858 - January 5, 1948) was the second wife of the 23rd United States president Benjamin Harrison. She was 25 years younger than him, and was the niece of his first wife.
Mary Scott Lord was born in 1858, in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, 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.
In 1881, she married Walter Erskine Dimmick (July 4, 1856 - 1881), a son of the attorney-general of Pennsylvania. He died six weeks after their wedding.
During the presidency of Benjamin Harrison, she was a frequent guest at the White House, and lived there for a time with Harrison and his first wife (her aunt), Caroline Lavinia Scott, who died in 1892.
Mrs. Dimmick married the former president on April 6, 1896 at St. Thomas Protestant Episcopal Church in New York City.
They travelled widely: to Venezuela, where Harrison played a role in settling a boundary dispute, and to the First Peace Conference at The Hague in 1899. They had one daughter, Elizabeth Harrison, born on February 21, 1897. Benjamin Harrison died in 1901 after 5 years of marriage.
Mrs. Harrison died in New York City and was buried in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Mary Lord Dimmick Harrison
(1858-1948)
Benjamin Harrison's second wife received her early education by private tutors in New York City. Mary's father died when she was nine and she moved to Springfield, Illinois, with her mother and sister. In Springfield she attended a private school conducted by Miss. Corvoran at the home of Mrs. C. M. Smith (a sister of Mary Todd Lincoln). After one year in Springfield the family settled in Princeton, New Jersey. For five years Mary attended a Princeton Day Boarding School kept by Mrs. Moffitt. She then spent one year at a female college in Elmira, New York. Her main course of study and her passion was music.