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BENJAMIN HARRISON 27 boundary arbitration commission, concluding his argument in Paris September 27, 1899. He is the author of "This Country of Ours" (New York, 1897). His life was written by Gen. Lewis Wal lace (Philadelphia, 1888). A selection of Gen. Harrison s speeches, edited by Charles Hedges, ap peared in 1888, and another collection was pub lished four years later. He died in Indianapolis March 13, 1901. His wife, CAROLINE LAVINIA SCOTT,, born in Ox ford, Ohio, October 1, 1832; died in Washington, D. C., October 25, 1892, was the daughter of John W. Scott, who was a professor in Miami univer sity at the time of her birth, and afterward became president of the seminary in Oxford. She was graduated at the seminary in 1852, the same year that Gen. Harrison took his degree at the univer sity, and was married to him on October 20, 1853. She was a musician, and was also devoted to paint ing, besides which she was a diligent reader, and gave part of her time to literary clubs, of several of which she was a member. Mrs. Harrison was a manager of the orphan asylum in Indianapolis and a member of the Presbyterian church in that city, and until her removal to Washington taught a class in Sunday-school. They had two children. The son, Russell, was graduated at Lafayette in 1877 as a mining engineer, and served in Cuba in the war