Benjamin Harrison Field Trip-in progress

Benjamin Harrison Field Trip

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Harrison

Our 23rd President, Benjamin Harrison.  He was a Brigadier General in the Civil War--on the Union side.

This is a painting of Harrison, done right after his service in the Civil War.

Benjamin Harrison was married twice; this is his first wife; Caroline.  She was an artist, and painted very well.  The house if FULL of her watercolors and paintings.  She painted BIRDS and FLOWERS as her subject matter...and I found them very appealing.  She even painted china--painted an assortment of birds on china.  His second wife, was Caroline's niece, was 25 years younger than BH!!! and he was around 64 yrs old when she had children with him.  His previous daughter was not happy with his second marriage---very upset...

BH's great grandfather signed the Declaration of Independence.  He comes from a long line of prominent men.

I did find a whole row of Dickens works in the cabinet!  Such good works were in the collection.

I forget if there were 3 or 4 levels/stories to this house; but it was 10,000 square feet!!!  

This is another painting of Caroline Harrison--I really liked her (obviously!).

This picture was from Caroline's room--this was one of her many flower paintings in the house.

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