Background
Harrison, Carter Henry was born on February 15, 1825 in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. Son of Carter Henry and Caroline (Russell) Harrison.
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Harrison, Carter Henry was born on February 15, 1825 in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. Son of Carter Henry and Caroline (Russell) Harrison.
He was educated by private tutors, and was graduated from Yale College in 1845 as a member of Scroll and Key. Following graduation, he traveled and studied in Europe from 1851 to 1853 before entering Transylvania College in Lexington, where he earned a law degree in 1855.
He previously served two terms in the United States House of Representatives. Harrison was the first cousin twice removed of President William Henry Harrison. He was admitted to the bar in 1855 and commenced practice in Chicago.
Harrison came to Chicago because he saw it as a land of opportunity.
Harrison ran an unsuccessful campaign in 1872 for election to the Forty-third Congress. He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses, and delegate to the 1880 and 1884 Democratic National Conventions.
She was the daughter of Chicago pioneer Marcus C. Stearns. His letters from the trip were first published in the Chicago Tribune and later compiled into the book (1891): and The Old Manitoba"s Story.
The night of the Haymarket Riot in 1886, Harrison walked unmolested through the crowd of anarchists and advised the police to leave the demonstrators alone.
The riot was sparked by a bomb, reportedly thrown at police by anarchists (killing seven police officers). After leaving office, Harrison was owner and editor of the Chicago Times from 1891 to 1893. He was re-elected in 1893, in time for the World"s Columbian Exposition.
His desire was to show the world the true Chicago, and he appointed 1st Ward Alderman "Bathhouse" John Coughlin to sit on the reception committee.
On October 28, 1893, two days before the close of the Exposition, Harrison was murdered in his home by Patrick Eugene Prendergast, a disgruntled office seeker. Harrison was buried in Chicago"s Graceland Cemetery.
Prendergast was hanged on July 13, 1894. Harrison"s career and assassination are closely connected with the World"s Columbian Exposition, and are discussed at some length as a subplot to the two main stories (about the fair and serial killer H H Holmes) in The Devil in the White City.
The celebration of the close of the Exposition was cancelled and replaced by a large public memorial service for Harrison.
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Member United States House of Representatives from Illinois, 44th-45th congresses, 1875-1879.
Married Sophorisba Preston, 1855. Married second, Marguerite Stearns, 1882.