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States and Enjjland in referent-e to the killing of seal ill the Bering sea; for the Pan -American congress held in Washington in the winter of 1889-90, in which the South and Central Ameri- can countries were represented and a system of reciprocity in trade establisiied; signed the acts for the admission of the territories of North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming as states; secured the ex- tinguishment of Indian titles to vast tracts of land formerly claimed by the Indians, tiimugh commissioners appointe 1 under the direction of the secretary of tiie interior and which secured the territory of Oklahoma; quelled the Indian disturl»ances in the norllnvest. IS90-91; and de- fined in a messiige to congress the rights of aliens to the protection of the U.S. government, in connection with the demand of the Italian

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Maine and Texas, the armed cruiser Xeio York, the protected cruisers Chicago, Baltimore, Charles- ton, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Xeimrk, and the gunboats Yorktown, Bennington, Concord and Machias were completed. These vessels had been planned and constructed largely under Mr. Cleveland's administration and during Mr. Harrison's the battle ships Indiana, Iowa, Massa- chusetts, Oregon and Texaf^, the armed cruiser Brooklyn and the protected cruisers Cincinnati, Columbia, Detroit, Marhlehead, Montgomery, Minne- apolis, Olympia and lialeigh were planned and their keels laid. He was renominated by the R^-pulilican national convention of 1892 at Minnea[«jlis, Minn., and in the general election in November, 189ii, he received .=5,176.108 of the fxjiniiar votes, ex-Presiolis; and was non-resident professor of constitutional law at the Leland Stanford, Jr., university, Cal.. 1893-98. He was married, Oct. 20, 18r,3. to Caroline Lavinia. daughter of Prof. John "W. Scott of Oxford, Ohio. She died in Washing-

ton, D.C., Oct. 2."), 1892. Tiieir son, Russell Ben- jamin, was graduated from Lafayette in 1877; became a journalist; was married in 1884 to Mary Angeline, daughter of the Hon. Alvin Saunders, U.S. senator from Iowa; and in 1898 was ap[)ointed assistant inspector-general in the U.S. volunteer army in the war with Sixain with the rank of major and assigned to the statf of Maj.-Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. Their daughter Mary Scott was married to James Robert McKee, a merchant of Indianapolis anil subsequently of New York city. Mr. Harrison was married a second time in April, 1896, to Mrs. Mary Lord Dimmick, and on Feb. 21, 1897. a daugliter was born, who was christened Eliza- beth. In May, 1898, ilr. Harrison was retained as principal counsel for Venezuela before the court of arbitration on the British -Venezueliiii boundary question. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Miami university in 188S and from the college of New Jersey in 1889. He is the author of Indiana Supreme Court licports. Vols. 1.1-17 and 23-29; This Country o/0?i^ji: daugliter of the Rev. Dr. John Witlierspoon and Mary Potts (Neal) Scott; granddaughter of George McElroy and Anna (Rea) Scott; and great-granddaughter of John and Anna (Rea) Scott. Her great- ..^^—

grandfather, John Scott, came to Amer- ica from the North of Ireland and set- tled in Bucks county, Pa., twenty miles north of Philadel- phia. On land pur- chased by him from the proprietary gov- ernment, the first Presbyterian church in America was erected as was the ■ ^

celebrated "log col- ^^;i,ryt^ -cf ^^tzi4^yi^2; taught mu-sic in Carrollton, Ky., LS-'iS, and on Oct. 20. 18.")3, was married to Benjamin Harrison, a grad- uate of Miami university. 18.12. Her experience in Washington society for six years as wife of a U.S. senator, 1881-87, gave her an acquaintance and experience that peculiarly fitted her to V>o