Benjamin Harrison, by Paul Raymond Audibert, Paris.

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Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, (1889-1893). Born North Bend, Ohio, August 20, 1833; died Indianapolis, Ind., March 13, 1901. The following is quoted from the coverleaf of the engraving:

"All Indianians followed the course of General Harrison with feelings of pride.*** Others will speak of his splendid record as a soldier of the Union; of his great patriotic character as President of the United States; but it has occurred to me that if his military record were obliterated, the history of his administration as President effaced, his record as a puublic character forgotten, still Benjamin Harrison would tower above most of his fellow men because of his life as a model citizen and a Christian gentleman."

"It will be remembered always, and it is perhaps the crowing glory of his career, that whether in the great charges at Reseca and Peach Tree Creek, in the presidential chair, or in the great international court across the sea, with the eyes of the world upon him--wherever he was, he kept his course Heavenward all the time and never lost sight of the duties he owed to his God and his fellow men."***

"The strength of General Harrison's life lay in the high estimate by him of the value of the talents with which he had been endowed. He did not overestimate the quality of these gifts. In his view they were his sole inheritance, and he was charged by his Creator with the high duty of their best cultivation and honest use."*** It is easy, therefore, to see that from the beginning to the end his life was growth--an unusual thing for one who lives almost three score and ten."***

"He borrowed nothing from his illustrious ancestry. He had a just pride in it, but fought for and won his own honors. There was no boasting of his lineage, yet it was fully appreciated. In his homne, for his own eyes, and the joy of his family and friends, were pictures and souvenirs of those of his own blood who had wrought great things before. But they were household penates, loved, venerated and cherished, but too sacred for display and public gaze."***

"These elemental qualities account in large measure for the character of the man; for his thoroughness in the performance of every duty that devolved upon him. They also reveal to us the reasons why he was not always received by all men with acclaim. He had no time to throw away; no talents to waste on immaterial things. Hence he traveled little. He had not crossed the continent until he was President of the United States. He did not go abroad until his term expired, and then went as a lawyer engaged in a great trial. His years were full of labors and consequent honors."***

"In these last ceremonies and tributes of affection, I can not think of him as the general of armies; the austere senator; the exalted President of the nation; the fascinating orator; the great lawyer. All these attainments are submerged and lost to view in my love for the man, the departed friend."--JOHN W. KERR, from an Address at the Memorial Meeting of the Bar of Indiana, March 16, 1901.