In a message dated 3/27/04 11:42:02 AM Eastern Standard Time, Firehair3 writes: > Russsell Farnham Lord ofHonesdale was not related to the Lords of > Lordville, at least not via the Lord name. > > Thought this dab of info was interesting. > > Sheila / Firehair > > Mary Scott [Lord] Dimmick Harrison > > was born in Honesdale, Pennsylvania in 1858, > > the daughter of Russell Farnham Lord and Elizabeth Mayhew Scott. > > Her father was chief engineer of the Delaware and Hudson Canal. She attended > a private school in Princeton, NJ and Elmira College in NY. > > In 1881 she married Walter Erskine Dimmick, s/o the attorney-general of > Pennsylvania; he died six weeks after the wedding. > > During the presidency of Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893) she was a frequent > guest at the White House, finally being persuaded by her aunt, (Caroline Scott > Harrison) to live with them. > > On 6 April 1896 Mrs ( Mary Lord) Dimmick married Benjamin Harrison at St. > Thomas Protestant Episcopal Church in New York City. During the next five > years the couple travelled widely, partly because of Harrison's role in settling > the Venezuelan boundary dispute and as a delegate at the Hague Peace > Conferece. > > They had one daughter Elizabeth (b. 1897) who studied law, was admitted to > the bar of both Indiana and New York. She married James Blaine Walker, Jr. > > After 1913 Mary (Lord) (Dimmick) Harrison moved to New York with her > daughter. During WWI she directed the entertainment bureau of the Officers Service > Department of the New York War Camp Community Service, and served for more > than 25 years as treasurer of the Committee of One Hundred, a Republican > Woman's organization. She died in New York City in 1946, and is buried in Crown >