Elizabeth Harrison Walker
{{Short description|American lawyer (1897–1955)}}
{{Notability|Biography|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Elizabeth Harrison Walker
| image = Miss Elizabeth Harrison, daughter of Benjamin Harrison.jpg
| caption = Harrison in 1917
| birth_date = {{birth date|1897|2|21}}
| birth_place = Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1955|12|25|1897|2|21}}
| death_place = New York City, U.S.
| alma_mater = New York University School of Law (1919)
| occupation = Lawyer
| spouse = {{marriage|James Blaine Walker|April 6, 1921}}
| children = 2
| parents = Benjamin Harrison
Mary Dimmick Harrison
}}
Elizabeth Harrison Walker (February 21, 1897 – December 25, 1955) was the third and youngest child of U.S. President Benjamin Harrison, and the only child with his second wife, Mary.[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~harrisonrep/hhdocs/82dechh.htm#pres_ben Harrison Heritage December 1982 Vol. 2 Number 4] She was only 4 when Benjamin Harrison died.
Biography
Born in Indiana in 1897, she graduated from New York University School of Law in 1919 and was admitted to the bar in Indiana and New York.{{Cite web |title=6 Bold, Unstoppable Women in Benjamin Harrison's Life 6 Bold, Unstoppable Women in Benjamin Harrison's Life |url=https://bhpsite.org/6-bold-unstoppable-women-in-benjamin-harrisons-life/ |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=Benjamin Harrison |language=en-US}}
Elizabeth Harrison participated in a 1916 Emergency Services Corps camp in New Jersey.{{Cite web |date=2015-12-18 |title=From satin to khaki: Women join the Military Preparedness Movement of 1916 |url=https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/satin-khaki-women-join-military-preparedness-movement-1916 |access-date=2024-01-16 |website=americanhistory.si.edu |language=en}} This camp was conducted in the name of military preparedness as tensions grew in Europe, but the intention was never to train women for the trenches, rather to train women on how better to serve the war effort.{{Cite news |last=Humanities |first=National Endowment for the |date=1916-06-02 |title=The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, June 02, 1916, Final Edition, Image 3 |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1916-06-02/ed-1/seq-3/ |access-date=2024-01-16 |issn=1941-0654}} At this camp, women learned to shoot rifles, ride horses, practice flag signaling, hike for 30 miles at a time, and perform first aid procedures.
On April 6, 1921, Elizabeth Harrison married James Blaine Walker (January 20, 1889 – January 15, 1978), a grandnephew of Secretary of State James G. Blaine, a member of her father's cabinet.{{Cite news |date=1955-12-26 |title=Indianapolis News 12-26-1955 Elizabeth Harrison Walker Obituary |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-news-indianapolis-news/30496616/ |access-date=2024-01-24 |work=The Indianapolis News |pages=14}} They had 2 children, Benjamin Harrison Walker (b. 1921 d. 1995) and Jane Harrison Garfield (née Walker) (b. 1929 d. 2020). Jane Walker married Newell Garfield, a grandson of Interior Secretary James Rudolph Garfield, and great-grandson of President James Garfield.
Jane and her husband, Newell, had one daughter, Eliza, and grand daughter, Sirjana.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/obituary/dr-jane-walker-garfield/|title = Dr. Jane Walker Garfield| date=30 September 2020 }} Benjamin married Elizabeth Sillcocks Walker and had two sons.
Elizabeth Harrison was the founder and publisher of Cues on the News, an investment newsletter for women.
She died from natural causes at 58 on Christmas in 1955. She was the last surviving child of Benjamin Harrison.
File:Elizabeth Harrison holding flowers - DPLA - 3da644bd5b6d2aa912d655d998cb65a3 (page 1) (cropped).jpg|link=|A young Elizabeth Harrison holding Flowers
File:Elizabeth Harrison) Mrs. J.B. Walker Jr LCCN2014698114 (cropped).jpg|link=|Photograph of Harrison in her youth
File:Mrs. Benj. Harrison & Elizabeth, Mrs. Green & Helen LCCN2014701828.jpg|link=|Mrs. Benj. Harrison and Elizabeth, Mrs. Green and Helen at an Emergency Services Corps camp, 1916.
File:Kath. Dahlgren, Eliz. Harrison LCCN2014701829.jpg|link=|Katherine Dahlgren (left) and Elizabeth Harrison (right), Emergency Services Corps camp, 1916.
Notes
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Sources
- Charles W. Calhoun, Benjamin Harrison, 2005, (short biography-information about Mary Dimmick Harrison).
- {{cite book |title= The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents|last= DeGregorio|first= William A.|edition= 5th|year= 2001|publisher= Barricade Books|location= Fort Lee, New Jersey|isbn=1-56980-208-4 |pages= 331–334}}
External links
{{Commons category|Elizabeth Harrison Walker}}
- [http://www.presidentbenjaminharrison.org Benjamin Harrison House]
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Category:21st-century American women
Category:Children of presidents of the United States
Category:Harrison family (Virginia)
Category:New York University School of Law alumni
Category:Lawyers from Indianapolis
Category:Lawyers from New York City
Category:20th-century American women lawyers
Category:20th-century American lawyers
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