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Reception very flaltering — A great favorite of the President's — Marriage to Major Van Buren — The eldest son and private secretary — Major Van Buren a graduate of West Point — His wife's first appearance as hostess — A New Year's Day Reception — A universally admired bride — The only South Carolina lady who has held the position — A tour in Europe — Presented at the Court of St. James — Heruncle American Minister — In London during the season — The Emperor of Russia and other foreign notables — Exceptionally pleasant visit — A three months' tour — In Paris — Attentions from General Cass, the American Minister — Presented to the King and Queen — The guest of Louis Philippe — The King's unceremonious attentions — Shows his visitors over the palace — Knocks at the room of the Comte de Paris — The Queen's amusement — Her grandchildren asleep — The return to America — In Wash ington when Congress met — Closing year of the administration — Mrs. Van Buren mistress of Lindenwald — Her winters spent in South Carolina — Removes to New York in 1848 — Residence in that city — Three years' sojourn in Europe — Home life in New York — A long and happy career — Death of her husband and son — Her own death |
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ANNA SYMMES HARRISON.
The wife of the ninth President — Born in the year of Indepedence— A native of Morristown, N. J. — A motherless girl — A dangerous journey through British lines — Her father a Colonel in the Continental Army — Assumes the disguise of a British officer — Takes his child to her grandparents on Long Island — Separated from her for many years — Little Anna's early training — Her grandmother an excellent woman — A careful teacher and Christian guide — Her grandchild grows to womanhood — Sent to New York to school — With her grandparents until nineteen years old — Goes to Ohio with her father — Colonel Symmes — A step-mother — Settles at North Bend — His second wife — Daughter of Governor Livingston, of New York — Judge Symmes a Judge of the Supreme Court — Ofien absent from home — Anna Symmes with her sister in Kentucky — Meets her future husband — Captain Harrison, of the United States Army — In command of Fort Washington, the present site of Cincinnati— Marriage — A bride at twenty — Captain Harrison resigns — Elected to Congress — Mrs. Harrison accompanied him to Philadelphia — Visits Virginia relations — A healthy, handsome woman — Medium height and slight in person — An intellectual face — General Harrison appointed Governor of Indiana Territory — Removes to Vincennes, the seat of government — Many happy years spent there — Mrs. Harrison popular and admired — A household of love — Twenty years of pleasant home-life — Governor Harri- son continues in power until 1812 — Appointed to the command of the Northwestern Army — The Battle of Tippecanoe — Defeat of Tecumseh — General Harrison removes his family to Cincinnati — Major-General — Marches to the frontier — Mrs. Harrison and her children — Long separated from her husband — General Hairison resigns — Removes to North Bend, on the Ohio — Mrs. Harrison a pleasant neighbor — The mother of ten children — Her husband much from home — Responsibility and care of the wife and mother — Generous hos- |
