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46 LIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS presidents (the shortest is Washington s second ad dress, consisting of but 134 words, while Har rison s is 8,578), and he was also the author of a "Discourse on the Aborigines of the Valley of the Ohio" (Cincinnati, 1838). His life has been writ ten by Moses Dawson (Cincinnati, 1834) ; by James Hall (Philadelphia, 1836) ; by Richard Hildreth (1839) ; by Samuel J. Burr (New York, 1840); by Isaac R. Jackson; and by Henry Montgomery (New York, 1853). His wife, ANNA, born near Morristown, N. J., July 25, 1775 ; died near North Bend, Ohio, Feb ruary 25, 1864, was a daughter of John Cleves Symmes, and married Gen. Harrison November 22, 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 dis tant. Her funeral sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. Horace Bushnell, and her body lies by the side of her husband at North Bend. Their son, JOHN SCOTT, born in Vincennes, Ind., October 4, 1804; died near North Bend, Ohio, May 26, 1878, received a liberal education, and was elected to congress as a Whig, serving from De cember 5, 1853, till March 3, 1857. His third son, Benjamin, became the twenty-third president of the United States.