William Henry Harrison
Elizabeth "Betsey" Bassett Harrison Short
She was born September 29, 1796. She died on September 26, 1846. Betsy was the first child of the seventh president and Anna Tuthill Symmes. Betsy's famous Indian-fighting father was often gone during her childhood. She married John Cleves Short. She died five years after the untimely loss of her father, who served as president for only 30 days.
John Cleves Symmes Harrison
He was born October 28, 1798. He died in controversy at 34 years of age on October 30, 1830. "Symmes" was a popular and helpful figure to farmers and settlers in the Indiana Territory. He married Clarissa Pike, a daughter of the famous General Zebulon Pike, who had discovered Pike's Peak in Colorado. They had six children. Symmes received an appointment to a position in the government land office in Vincennes, Indiana. After serving for years with a reputation for integrity, Symmes was caught in a political trap set by his father's enemies. He was accused of embezzlement, and fired. There was an explanation for the events but, driven by a desire to hurt General Harrison, opposing politicians covered up the facts. Disillusioned and upset by his experience, Symmes died in the middle of the crisis.
Lucy Singleton Harrison Este
She was born September 1800, and died April 7, 1826. She married David Este, a judge of Ohio's Superior Court. She bore 4 children before her death at 26.
William Henry Harrison, Jr.
He was born September 3, 1802 and died an alcoholic at age 35 on February 6, 1838. He had a mediocre law career in Cincinnati before marrying Jane Findlay, daughter of a close family friend.
John Scott Harrison
He was born October 4, 1804, and died May 25, 1878 at the age of 73. He was a two-term congressman who spent most of his life running the family's farm in Ohio. He fathered three children with his first wife, Lucretia and, after her death, six more children with his second wife, Elizabeth. His only surviving child was John Scott.
Ten years after his own passing, his son, Benjamin, was inaugurated as the twenty-third president of the United States, making John Scott the only presidential son to have his own son win the office.
Benjamin Harrison
He was born 1806 and he died June 9, 1840 at the age of 33. He was taken prisoner during the Texas War of Independence. His release drew bitter and inaccurate criticism of cowardice from the political enemies of the family. He had three children with his first wife, Louisa, and two with Mary, his second spouse. Benjamin picked up the dream of his father and became a physician. He died only months before his father became president.
Mary Symmes Harrison Thornton
She was born January 22, 1809 and died November 16, 1842 at the age of 33. She was twenty years old when she married a physician. They were parents to six children. She died a year after the death of her presidential father.
Carter Bassett Harrison
He was born October 26, 181 and died August 12, 1839 at 27. By age twenty-five Carter had begun practicing law. He married Mary Anne Sutherland, fathered one child and died slightly more than a year before his father was elected to the nation's top office.
Anna Tuthill Harrison Taylor
She was born on October 28, 1813 and died July 5, 1845. She married her cousin, named William Henry Harrison Taylor in honor of the general. There are some conflicting accounts of the date of her death. Most records indicate she died at thirty-one years of age, less than two years after her father's tragic death in the White House. But another historic account dates her death at 1865, reporting that she had six children born after the 1845 date that is often quoted as her official date of death.
James Findlay Harrison
He was born in 1814 and died in 1817. He was the last Harrison to be born, but the first to die.
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