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Title: McClure's magazine
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: McClure, S. S. (Samuel Sidney), 1857-1949
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Publisher: New York : S.S. McClure
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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of our public men. Born inBerkeley, Virginia, February 9, 1773, hegrew to manhood with the close of the Rev- olution and the establishment of the nation-al government. His father was the friendof Washington, and when the son went intothe Western wilds he held a commission asensign signedby the first of the Presidents.At the age of thirty he was a delegate inCongress from the Northwest Territory.For a succeeding decade he was governorof that wide stretch of country which intime he saw carved into States all owingmuch to hisgeniusas warrior and statesman.In the second war with Great Britain hecommanded the Western armies, and won thenotable victories of Tippecanoe and theThames. The first gave him a name whichbecame the slogan of the Whigs in thememorable campaign of Tippecanoe andTyler too. At the battle of the Thamesfell Tecumseh, whose death broke the In-dian power east of the Mississippi. Afterthe war of 1812 General Harrison was suc- -m THE NEW STATUE OF WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON. 173
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STATUE OF WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, MADE FOR THE CITY OF CINCINNATI BY MR. L. T. REBISSO. From a photograph by Landy, Cincinnati. cessively Congressman, Senator of theUnited States, and Minister to Colombia.Returning in 1830 to his home at NorthBend, on the line between Indiana andOhio, he lived more or less in retirementuntil 1836, when he was made the Whigcandidate for President. He was defeated;but in 1840 he was again the nominee, and,after the greatest campaign of the century,was elected, defeating Martin Van Buren.The campaign of 1840 was called thelog-cabin and hard-cider campaign,though the reputed log-cabin home ofthe Whig candidate was in reality a spa-cious mansion. General Harrison was in-augurated March 4, 1841, and on April 4, a month later, he died in the White House,a victim of exposure and the wearing im-portunities of office-seeking constituents.Something of the character of the man isdisclosed in his last words, spoken fourhours before his death. To whom hethought him

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