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| Benjamin Harrison
(1833 - 1901)
| Timeline |
| 1833 |
Born 20 August |
| 1852 |
Graduates Miami University, Oxford, Ohio |
| 1853 |
Marries Caroline Lavina Scott |
| 1854 |
Son, Russell, born |
| 1858 |
Daughter, Mary, born |
| 1861 |
Daughter is born and dies shortly after birth |
| 1862 |
Appointed Commander of the 70th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment |
| 1862 |
Reporter of the supreme court of Indiana |
| 1864 |
Again reporter of the supreme court of Indiana |
| 1880 |
Elected a member of the United States Senate |
| 1888 |
Elected president |
| 1892 |
Wife, Caroline, dies; runs for re-election, is defeated by Cleveland |
| 1895 |
Serves on the Board of Trustees of Purdue University until 1901 |
| 1896 |
Marries Mary Scott Lord Dimmick |
| 1897 |
This Country of Ours published; daughter, Elizabeth, born |
| 1898 |
Retained by the government of Venezuela as its leading counsel in the arbitration of its boundary dispute with Great Britain |
| 1901 |
Dies 13 March |
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