Elizabeth Harrison Walker (February 21, 1897 – December 25, 1955) was the third and youngest child of

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, and the only child with his second wife,

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. She was only 4 when

died.

Biography

Born in Indiana in 1897, she graduated from

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in 1919 and was admitted to the bar in

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and

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. Elizabeth Harrison participated in a 1916 Emergency Services Corps camp in

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. 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. 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

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, a member of her father's cabinet. They had 2 children, Benjamin Harrison Walker (b. 1921 d. 1995) and Jane Harrison Garfield (

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Walker) (b. 1929 d. 2020). Jane Walker married Newell Garfield, a grandson of

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, and great-grandson of President

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. Jane and her husband, Newell, had one daughter, Eliza, and grand daughter, Sirjana. 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.

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, ''Benjamin Harrison'', 2005, (short biography-information about Mary Dimmick Harrison). *

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