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  John Cleves Symmes
John Cleves Symmes (1742-1814) was a delegate to the Continental Congress from New Jersey, and later a pioneer in the Northwest Territory.
He was educated as a lawyer and married Anna Tuthill (1741-1776) at Mattituck, New York on October 30, 1760.
This land was known as the Symmes Purchase[?], and was the cause of considerable controversy in his lifetime and after.
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 Anna Symmes Harrison
Anna Tuthill Symmes, American first lady(March 4—April 4, 1841), the wife of  William Henry Harrison, ninth president of the United States, and grandmother of Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president.
The daughter of John Cleves Symmes (a soldier in the American Revolution and a judge) and Anna Tuthill Symmes (who died when her daughter was one year old), Anna was raised by her maternal grandparents.
In 1858 Anna's house was destroyed in a fire, and she spent the remaining six years of her life with her son John Scott Harrison, the only one of her children to outlive her.
www.northbendohio.org /AnnaSymmesHarrison.html   (383 words)

  
  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.
She was born in near Morristown, New Jersey in on July 25, 1775 to Judge John Cleves and Anna Tuthill Symmes of Long Island.
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_Tuthill_Symmes_Harrison   (589 words)

  
 John Cleves Symmes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Cleves Symmes (1742-1814) was a delegate to the Continental Congress from New Jersey, and later a pioneer in the Northwest Territory.
He was educated as a lawyer and married Anna Tuthill (1741-1776) at Mattituck, New York on October 30, 1760.
Another daughter Anna Tuthill Symmes was born in 1775 near Morristown, before his wife died in 1776.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Cleves_Symmes   (572 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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.
She was born in near Morristown, New Jersey in on July 25, 1775 to Judge John Cleves and Anna Tuthill Symmes of Long Island.
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 Long Island, who cared for her during the rest of the war.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Anna-Tuthill-Symmes-Harrison   (865 words)

  
 THIRD GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Anna Tuthill SYMMES was born on 25 Jul 1775 in Morristown, New Jersey.
John Cleves Symmes HARRISON was born on 28 Oct 1798.
Mary Symmes HARRISON was born on 22 Jan 1809.
www.presidentbenjaminharrison.org /Third_Generation_WHH.htm   (116 words)

  
 First Ladies' Biographical Information
John Cleves Symmes, born 21 July, 1742, Colonel of the Continental Army during American Revolution, associate justice on the New Jersey Superior Court (1778-1785), delegate from Delaware to the Continental Congress (1785-1786), Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (1787), died 26 February, 1814 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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.
Anna Harrison voiced her opposition to the drafting of her husband as the Whig candidate for President in both 1836 and 1840.
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 First Ladies: Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison
Anna Harrison, wife of William Henry Harrison, never saw the White House.
At the time of the Inauguration, she was ailing and could not travel to Washington D.C. from her home in Ohio.
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)

  
 Biography of Anna Harrison
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.
A clandestine marriage on November 25, 1795, united Anna Symmes and Lt. William Henry Harrison, an experienced soldier at 22.
www.whitehouse.gov /history/firstladies/ah9.html   (447 words)

  
 John Cleves Symmes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
He was the son of the Rev. Timothy Symmes (1715-1756) and Mary Cleves (died c 1746) of Suffolk County, New York on Long Island.
Symmes bought 330,000 acres from the Congress in 1788.
President George Washington signed the U.S. Patent (deed) on September 30, 1794 conveying to Symmes 248,250 acres plus a surveying township (23,040 acres), in trust, for an academy.
www.bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/j/jo/john_cleves_symmes.html   (515 words)

  
 Harrison, Anna Tuthill Symmes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Anna objected when it was suggested that her husband run for president in 1836, and she was relieved when President Van Buren defeated him.
Due to Anna's poor health and their advancing ages (both were in their late sixties), Anna was even more opposed to William Henry running for president in 1840 than she had been in 1836.
BURIAL: Anna is buried in the Harrison vault, under the tomb of her husband, in North Bend, Ohio overlooking the Ohio River.
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 William Henry Harrison: 9th President of the United States
On Nov. 22, 1795, William Henry Harrison married Anna Symmes, daughter of Judge John Cleves Symmes.
Judge Symmes was a land speculator with a patent for a vast acreage of Ohio land.
His wife, Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison, was too ill to go to Washington so he asked the widow of his son, William Henry Harrison, Jane Irwin Harrison to accompany him as hostess until his wife could come to Washington.
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 American National Biography Online
Harrison, Anna (25 July 1775-25 Feb. 1864), first lady to President William Henry Harrison, was born Anna Tuthill Symmes near Morristown, New Jersey, the daughter of John Cleves Symmes, a New Jersey Supreme Court justice and Revolutionary War soldier, and Anna Tuthill Symmes.
Anna and William Henry Harrison developed a deep and loving relationship in which she provided the spiritual fortifications for the family, and he expanded his military and political career in Ohio and Indiana.
In 1800 Anna Harrison gladly returned to Indiana with her husband when he was named territorial governor; she much preferred the frontier life to the social demands of the East Coast.
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 Anna Harrison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
When she was thirteen years old she with her father and stepmother into the wilderness in spite of Indian dangers and at North Bend Ohio.
Though came from one of the best families Virginia Judge Symmes did not want his to face the hard life of frontier but eventualy seeing her happiness he accepted choice.
His service in Congress territorial delegate from Ohio gave Anna and two children a chance to visit his at Berkeley their plantation on the James River.
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 Harrison, Anna --  Encyclopædia Britannica
née Anna Tuthill Symmes American first lady (March 4–April 4, 1841), the wife of William Henry Harrison, ninth president of the United States, and grandmother of Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president.
The daughter of John Cleves Symmes (a soldier in the American Revolution and a judge) and Anna Tuthill Symmes (who died when her daughter was one year…
Although Anna Harrison's husband, William Henry Harrison, was the ninth president of the United States, she never lived in the White House.
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 Anna Harrison, First Lady of the United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In secret, Anna Symmes married William Henry Harrison, an officer in the Army of the Northwest, on November 25, 1795.
Her father, Judge John Symmes, who did not condone the relationship, soon learned to accept the marriage.
When Anna learned that he had been elected President she was reluctant to move to Washington.
www.laughtergenealogy.com /bin/histprof/ladies/bio/09ahs.html   (201 words)

  
 Anna Symmes Harrison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Anna Symmes Harrison (1775-1864) was the wife of William Henry Harrison, who served as president of the United States for only 30 days.
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)

  
 WilliamHarrison
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.
Anna was 2 years, 166 days younger than her husband:William.
www.williamhenryharrison.homestead.com /WilliamHarrison.html   (856 words)

  
 Bradley Rymph: Genealogy: Anna Tuthill Symmes (Harrison)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Still Anna's father, Judge John Cleves Symmes (1742-1814) ― a wealthy landowner in North Bend, Ohio ―; was furious.
Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison lived for 23 years after her husband's death.
Anna Tuthill Symmes was a great-great-great-granddaughter of John Budd, Jr.
home1.gte.net /bbrymph/gensymme.htm   (344 words)

  
 Biography of Anna Harrison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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.
A clandestine marriage on November 25, 1795, united Anna Symmes and Lt. William Henry Harrison, an experienced soldier at 22.
laughtergenealogy.com /bin/histprof/ladies/bio/09ah.html   (453 words)

  
 American President
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)

  
 Ohio Moments: Anna Symmes Harrison helped tame wilderness
On Feb. 25, 1864, Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison - the first "first lady" from Ohio - died at the North Bend home of her son, Ohio Congressman John Scott Harrison.
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.
www.enquirer.com /editions/2003/02/25/loc_ohiodate0225.html   (263 words)

  
 First Ladies: Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Anna Harrison, wife of William Henry Harrison, never saw the White House.
At the time of the Inauguration, she was ailing and could not travel to Washington D.C. from her home in Ohio.
The Harrisons had ten children although at the time of Anna's death in 1864, only two survived.
www.multieducator.com /Bio/ladies/ats_harrison.html   (106 words)

  
 Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison
Anna Harrison, born near Norristown, New Jersey, 25 July, 1775; died near North Bend, Ohio, 25 February, 1864, was a daughter of John Cleves Symmes, and married General Harrison 22 November, 1795.
After her husband's death she lived at North Bend till 1855, when she went to the house of her son, John Scott Harrison, a few miles distant.
Her funeral sermon was preached by Horace Bushnell, and her body lies by the side of her husband at North Bend.
www.virtualology.com /virtualmuseumofhistory/hallofusa/usfirstladies/ANNAHARRISON.COM   (216 words)

  
 Harrison, Anna
Although William came from a prominent Virginia family, Anna's father objected to the match, citing the young man's lack of any profession “but that of arms.” The couple married secretly on November 25, 1795, while her father was away.
As Anna began packing in April 1841, she learned of William's death.
Although he had served only one month in office, Congress voted to give Anna a pension equivalent to his salary, thus setting a precedent for the pensions of subsequent first ladies.
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 Anna Harrison, First Lady of the United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In secret, Anna Symmes married William Henry Harrison, an officer in the Army of the Northwest, on November 25, 1795.
Her father, Judge John Symmes, who did not condone the relationship, soon learned to accept the marriage.
When Anna learned that he had been elected President she was reluctant to move to Washington.
laughtergenealogy.com /bin/histprof/ladies/bio/09ahs.html   (201 words)

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