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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison
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 was born in Terre Haute, Indiana and attended the public schools of Omaha, Nebraska, and Washington, D.C. He went to the College of Agriculture at the University of Nebraska in 1919 and 1920.
Harrison was born into a prominent political family at the Berkeley Plantation in Virginia, the third son of Benjamin Harrison V and Elizabeth Basset.
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 William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison received a classical education at Hampden-Sidney College, where he was a student in 1787-90, and began a medical course in Philadelphia, but the death of his father caused him to discontinue his studies, and in November 1791 he entered the army as ensign in the Tenth Regiment at Fort Washington, Cincinnati.
Harrison was a member of the Ohio senate in 1819-21, and was an unsuccessful candidate for the National House of Representatives in 1822, when his Missouri vote helped to cause his defeat; he was a presidential elector in 1824, supporting Henry Clay, and from 1825 to 1828 was a member of the United States Senate.
Early in 1835 Harrison began to be mentioned as a suitable presidential candidate, and later in the year he was nominated for the presidency at large public meetings in Pennsylvania, New York and Maryland.
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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.
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.
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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.
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 William Henry Harrison - dKosopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
As Governor of Indiana Territory, Harrison led an expedition that defeated the Shawnee Indians at the Battle of Tippicanoo on November 7, 1811.
In the War of 1812 Harrison was appointed supreme commander of the Army of the Northwest, and ordered to retake Detroit, which had fallen to the British on August 16, 1812.
Harrison captured 500 British troops at the Battle of the Thames on October 5.
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 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.
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 Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison absent wife of short-termed William Henry Harrison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison absent wife of short-termed William Henry 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....
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 William Henry Harrison --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
In May 1800 Harrison was appointed governor of the newly created Indiana Territory, where, succumbing to the demands of land-hungry whites, he negotiated between 1802 and 1809 a number of treaties that stripped the Indians of that region of millions of acres.
Harrison, leading a force of seasoned regulars and militia, defeated the Indians at the Battle of Tippecanoe (November 7, 1811), near present-day Lafayette, Indiana, a victory that largely established his military reputation in the public mind.
Harrison's wife was Anna Symmes Harrison, who had been born in New Jersey of a well-connected family; her father served as chief justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.
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 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.
A clandestine marriage on November 25, 1795, united Anna Symmes and Lt. William Henry Harrison, an experienced soldier at 22.
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 Anna Harrison - TheBestLinks.com - Anna Tuthill Symmes, Benjamin Harrison, Cincinnati, Ohio, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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Though Harrison came from one of the best families of Virginia, Judge Symmes did not want his daughter to face the hard life of frontier forts; but eventualy, seeing her happiness, he accepted her choice.
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 William Henry Harrison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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.
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Harrison was born February 9, 1773 in Charles City County, VA. He was a simple frontier Indian fighter and lived in a log cabin and drinking cider.
William Henry Harrison was a scion of the Virginia planter aristocracy.
The Whig party nominated Harrison for president in 1840 and he won by a majority of less than 150,000 but swept the Electoral College, 234 to 60.
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 William Henry Harrison
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.
Anna Harrison was packing when she got the word of his death.
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 Anna Symmes Harrison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Anna Symmes Harrison (1775-1864) was the wife of William Henry Harrison, who served as president of the United States for only 30 days.
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.
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 William Henry Harrison Biography - Abridged Presidential Biographies : Article from CultureMonster.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Harrison was in fact a scion of the Virginia planter aristocracy.
In the War of 1812 Harrison won more military laurels when he was given the command of the Army in the Northwest with the rank of brigadier general.
Webster had reason to be pleased, for while Harrison was nationalistic in his outlook, he emphasized in his Inaugural that he would be obedient to the will of the people as expressed through Congress.
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 Bradley Rymph: Genealogy: Anna Tuthill Symmes (Harrison)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Still Anna's father, Judge John Cleves Symmes (1742-1814) ― a wealthy landowner in North Bend, Ohio ― was furious.
Harrison herself had not traveled with her husband from their Ohio home for the inauguration in Washington, D.C., because at age 65 she was too ill for the rigorous mid-winter travel via steamboat and railroad.
Anna Tuthill Symmes was a great-great-great-granddaughter of John Budd, Jr.
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 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.
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Anna Tuthill Symmes, was of Engish ansestry and was born at Solitude Farm, near Morristown, New Jersey, on July 25, 1775.
Anna Harrison was a classmate of First Lady Martha Washington's granddaughter Nellie Custis for one year, from 1789 to 1790.
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; named for Harrisons favorite hunting sport.
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 William Henry Harrison: 9th President of the United States
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.
Anna Harrison was packing when she got the word of his death.
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 First Ladies: Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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.
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 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.
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 American President
Resigned to her fate and suffering from poor health, Anna Harrison chose to forego her husband’s inauguration.
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.
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 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.
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 Anna Harrison, First Lady of the United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In secret, Anna Symmes married William Henry Harrison, an officer in the Army of the Northwest, on November 25, 1795.
Harrison had been born of a well-to-do family in Berkely, Virginia and decided early that he wanted a military career but it was cut short.
Harrison went ahead without her but with an understanding that she would join him later.
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 William H. Harrison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Harrison's importance to US history is made clear." The 22 paragraph biography is arranged chronologically under 11 headings.
This is a one page official White House biography of William Henry Harrison, the first president to die in office.
It describes Harrison's career as an Indian fighter in the Northwest Territories and his briefest of presidencies.
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Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison (July 25, 1775 - February 25, 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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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