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	Anna Harrison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison (1775 - 1864), wife of President William Henry Harrison and the grandmother of President Benjamin Harrison, was nominally First Lady of the United States during her husband's one-month term in 1841, but she never entered the White House.
		Harrison's appointment as governor of Indiana Territory took them even farther into the wilderness; he built a handsome house at Vincennes that blended fortress and plantation mansion.
		Anna was packing for the move to the White House when she learned of William's death in Washington, so she never made the journey.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anna_Harrison (567 words)

	obits.com, The Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for William Henry Harrison
		Harrison, a supporter of expansionism and "Manifest Destiny" secured permission to lead an attack against the intertribal alliance, and planned his attack while Tecumseh and his leaders were away from their base recruiting other tribes.
		Harrison led a command of 1,000 fully armed and trained soldiers on an attack on the village of Tecumseh's brother, The Prophet considered to be a spiritual and not a military leader.
		Harrison's wife Anna had been ill and mourning the recent death of their son, William, and had not undertaken the journey to the capitol for the inaugural ceremonies, but was able to read her husband's address the same day.
	obits.com /harrisonwilliamh.html (1142 words)

	Anna Symmes Harrison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Harrison, whose maiden name was Anna Tuthill Symmes, was born near Morristown, New Jersey, on July 25, 1775.
		When Anna was 4 years old, her father put her in custody of her grandparents on her mother's side.
		Anna Symmes and William Henry Harrison married on Nov. 25, 1795.
	www.worldbook.com /features/presidents/html/harrison_anna.htm (310 words)

	Anna Harrison -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When her mother died in 1776 her father disguised himself as a British soldier to carry her on horseback through the British lines to her grandparents on (An island in southeastern New York; Brooklyn and Queens are on its western end) Long Island, who cared for her during the rest of the war.
		Though Harrison won fame as an (additional info and facts about Indian fighter) Indian fighter and hero of the (A war (1812-1814) between the United States and England which was trying to interfere with American trade with France) War of 1812, he spent much of his life in a civilian career.
		Harrison's appointment as governor of (additional info and facts about Indiana Territory) Indiana Territory took them even farther into the wilderness; he built a handsome house at (additional info and facts about Vincennes) Vincennes that blended fortress and plantation mansion.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/an/anna_harrison.htm (695 words)

	American President (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Harrison, the youngest of seven children, was born on February 9, 1773, only two years before the American Revolution.
		Harrison was the Whig candidate of the West.
		Harrison, the oldest man at age sixty-eight (before Ronald Reagan) to be inaugurated President, died after serving only one month in office.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/williamhharrison (952 words)

	First Ladies' Biographical Information
		Anna Harrison had no ambitions socially or politically; rather she derived her satisfaction in the traditional role of wife and mother and as a devoted member of her church community.
		When Harrison was named Territorial Governor of Indiana in 1801, Anna Harrison moved with her children to the former French trading post of Vincennes, Indiana where her husband built the family a sturdy brick mansion they called Grouselands; it included a fortress-like wall to protect it from raids by Native American Indians.
		Anna Harrison voiced her opposition to the drafting of her husband as the Whig candidate for President in both 1836 and 1840.
	www.firstladies.org /biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=9 (2180 words)

	WilliamHarrison
		Harrison was the first of three presidents whose fathers had served as state governors.
		William was married to Anna Tuthill Symmes on November 25, 1795, in North Bend Ohio.
		Anna was born on July 25, 1775, near Morristown, New Jersey.
	www.williamhenryharrison.homestead.com /WilliamHarrison.html (856 words)

	National Park Service - The Presidents (William Henry Harrison)
		"Tippecanoe" Harrison, the oldest President at inaugural and the last to be born a British subject, was the first Whig to hold the office and the first incumbent to die.
		Harrison, the youngest of seven children, was the son of planter Benjamin Harrison, who signed the Declaration of Independence and served as Governor of Virginia.
		This portrait of William Henry Harrison, painted in Philadelphia, shows him at the age of 27 while he was serving as the Northwest Territory's Delegate to Congress.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/presidents/bio9.htm (902 words)

	ACS Connecticut Valley Section
		In the spring of 2001, the Anna J. Harrison Awards were established to honor the memory of Dr. Anna Jane Harrison.
		Harrison was an important force in chemistry and chemical education during the mid to late 20
		The college level Anna Jane Harrison Award will be another $1,000 award to be presented to a woman who has carried out a research project in chemistry as part of her undergraduate degree program.
	membership.acs.org /c/connval/harrison_award.htm (340 words)

	Anna Harrison
		South Hadley, MA--Anna J. Harrison, a leader in the field of chemistry and Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Mount Holyoke College, died of a stroke on Saturday, August 8, in Holyoke Hospital, Holyoke, MA.
		Professor Harrison was born December 23, 1912 on a Missouri farm in Benton City, the daughter of Albert and Mary (Jones) Harrison.
		Harrison is survived by a niece, MaryJo (Harrison) Freeman, of Louisville, KY, by a nephew, J. Albert Harrison, also of Louisville, and by four grandnieces and grandnephews.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/comm/press/releases/annaharrison.shtml (554 words)

	Welcome to The American Presidency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On Nov. 22, 1795, Harrison married Anna Symmes, daughter of Judge John Cleves Symmes, a speculator with a patent for a vast acreage of Ohio land.
		At dawn on Nov. 7, 1811, at Tippecanoe Creek, Harrison's army of 800 men was surprised by Indians under the command of the Prophet.
		Once relieved of office, Harrison wrote a patronizing letter to Bolívar, declaring that "the strongest of all government is that which is most free." This epigram aroused controversy in Colombia but proved to be useful in Harrison's later political career.
	ap.grolier.com /article?assetid=0194730-00&templatename=/article/article.html (1867 words)

	William Henry Harrison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Harrison was to describe himself as "a child of the Revolution".
		Harrison, in the campaign against the Indians, Harrison served as aide-de-camp to General "Mad Anthony" Wayne at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, which opened most of the Ohio area to settlement.
		Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison as a girl of 19, bringing pretty clothes and dainty manners, she went out to Ohio with her father, Judge John Cleves Symmes, who had taken up land for settlement on the "north bend" of the Ohio River.
	histclo.hispeed.com /pres/ind19/harrisonw.html (2258 words)

	New 'Anna' defiantly old-fashioned
		No disrespect to Rex Harrison ("Anna and the King of Siam") or Yul Brynner ("The King and I"), but the time is past when a white actor can play an Asian monarch.
		Anna arrives in Siam to teach not just the English language, but English ways, which amount, in her view, to civilization.
		Anna has a few things to learn, too: The king, though a realist, is wiser and more humane than she imagined.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/e/a/1999/12/17/WEEKEND12992.dtl&type=printable (667 words)

	American President (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		While never a First Lady, Anna Harrison was the first presidential wife widowed while her husband was in office.
		Nonetheless, Anna Harrison used her position as presidential widow skillfully, persuading Tyler to tap her family members for political appointments.
		It is difficult to comment on how Anna Harrison would have fulfilled her duties as a presidential spouse.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/williamhharrison/firstlady/email.html (231 words)

	Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison
		Biography: Anna Harrison was too ill to travel when her husband set out from Ohio in 1841 for his inauguration.
		It was a long trip and a difficult one even by steamboat and railroad, with February weather uncertain at best, and she at age 65 was well acquainted with the rigors of frontier journeys.
		When she decided not to go to Washington with him, the President-elect asked his daughter-in-law Jane Irwin Harrison, widow of his namesake son, to accompany him and act as hostess until Anna's proposed arrival in May.
	clinton4.nara.gov /WH/glimpse/firstladies/html/ah9.html (447 words)

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		She was living with her mother in 1860 and with her sister Anna Jane in 1870 and 1880.
		Apparently, Elisha Harrison and Ann Jane Isaacs had no children of their own, but Ann Jane became the guardian of the children of Elisha Harrison and Martha Rose, after the death of Elisha Harrison sometime prior to February 1867.
		Mary Jane Lakes was the daughter of Greenbury Lakes and Nancy Jane Harrison.
	www.geocities.com /faulconj/LinkGodfreyBetsy.htm (1725 words)

	ANNA HARRISON
		Anna's father, John Cleves Symmes had been appointed a judgeship in the territorial government and also was in charge of a million acres of land, known as the Miami Purchase, on the Ohio River, near Cincinnati.
		Harrison fell in love with Anna, but Anna's father was not in favor of their relationship as he did not want Anna to have to live on a soldier's salary.
		Anna never saw Washington, D.C., as she was still in Ohio upon his election, and was still packing for the trip to the White House when Harrison died.
	www.aboutfamouspeople.com /article1056.html (548 words)

	USATODAY.com - These first ladies were second to none (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		William Henry Harrison caught pneumonia and died in April 1841, before she had arrived in Washington.
		Anna Harrison, 65 when her husband took office.
		Anna Harrison was both the wife to and the grandmother of a president (Benjamin Harrison).
	usatoday.com /news/politicselections/2004-10-19-firstladies-first_x.htm (643 words)

	An Inventory of the Anna Wharton Morris Papers, 1729-1957 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Anna Wharton Morris was the youngest daughter of Joseph Wharton, prominent Philadelphia industrialist and philanthropist.
		Anna Wharton Morris remained a member of Green Street Monthly Meeting and was active in the Society of Friends throughout her life.
		Anna's reports of conditions in prisons throughout the country and, particularly, in the Philadelphia region, are preserved in her journals.
	www.swarthmore.edu /library/friends/ead/5106awmo.htm (3122 words)

	Rogers Ancestry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Heman Harrison (#2099) was born Cornwall, CT 13 November 1769.
		Hannah Harrison (#2250) was born Cornwall, CT 10 December 1786.
		Amanda Harrison (#1975) was born Cornwall, CT 20 March 1789.
	home.att.net /~rogersgenealogy/d2/i0000721.htm (311 words)

	Ohio Moments: Anna Symmes Harrison helped tame wilderness
		Anna Symmes was born in New Jersey in 1775.
		Her father, John Cleves Symmes, a colonel in the Continental Army, disguised himself as a British soldier and carried Anna on horseback through enemy lines to Long Island, N.Y. There, she was cared for by her maternal grandparents during the war.
		She was unable to attend her husband's inauguration as president in March 1841 because she was ill. A month later, she was in North Bend packing for the trip to Washington when she got word that the president had died.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2003/02/25/loc_ohiodate0225.html (263 words)

	Internet Public Library: POTUS
		Harrison was the only president who studied to become a doctor.
		Harrison's father was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
		Harrison was clerk of Hamilton County (Ohio) court immediately before becoming president.
	www.ipl.org /div/potus/whharrison.html (346 words)

	The White House Historical Association > Timelines
		Anna Harrison was too ill to travel when her husband set out from Ohio in 1841 for his inauguration.
		It was a long and difficult trip, and at age 65 she was well acquainted with the rigors of frontier journeys.
		Harrison’s service in Congress as territorial delegate from Ohio gave Anna and their two children a chance to visit his family at their plantation on the James River.
	www.whitehousehistory.org /05/subs/05_b06.html (2126 words)

	First Ladies: Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison
		Anna Harrison, wife of William Henry Harrison, never saw the White House.
		By April 7, Harrison was dead, apparently having taken ill at the Inauguration a month before.
		The Harrisons had ten children although at the time of Anna's death in 1864, only two survived.
	www.multied.com /Bio/ladies/ats_harrison.html (106 words)

	Benjamin Harrison -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Harrison signed into law the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890), the first legislation to prohibit business combinations in restraint of trade.
		After Benjamin Harrison became the 23rd president of the United States in 1889, his wife, Caroline, served as White House hostess until her death near the end of his term.
		Although Anna Harrison's husband, William Henry Harrison, was the ninth president of the United States, she never lived in the White House.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9274782 (737 words)

	John Harrison -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Harrison, the son of a carpenter and a mechanic himself, became interested in constructing an accurate chronometer in 1728.
		Known to millions of fans as The Quiet Beatle, George Harrison rose to international prominence as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.
		Harrison, however, died after only a month in office, and Tyler became president—the first vice-president to succeed to the presidency by the death of a president.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9039360 (723 words)

	Stepmom (1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Plot Summary: Anna and Ben, the two children of Jackie and Luke, have to cope with the fact that their parents divorced...
		The daughter, Anna, did a very good job, her acting was right on and her emotions were true to life.
		Sarandon's character son did a good job of being goofy, he was the center of most of the funny lines in the movie.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0120686 (478 words)

	Harrison's Marriage and Famous Family
		Anna Symmes was the daughter of Judge John Cleves Symmes.
		Harrison's grandson was Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president.
		One November day Anna and Harrison were married by a justice of the peace.
	www.wvec.k12.in.us /battle/marriage.html (513 words)

	Memorable Quotes from Stepmom (1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Anna Harrison: Well, it kind of smells like you, and I'm allergic to you too, so it fits perfectly.
		Jackie Harrison: You know, Ben was born in two hours, went right to the breast, and camped there for 4 days.
		Jackie Harrison: Just because you can't see something, doesn't mean it isn't there.
	www.imdb.com /Quotes?0120686 (570 words)

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