For twelvemonth , every metre we so much as touch a toe out of United States Department of State , I ’ve put cemeteries on our travel itinerary . From garden - similar expanses to overgrown kick hills , whether they ’re the concluding resting places of the well - known but not that important or the important but not that well - do it , I be intimate them all . After realizing that there are a lot of taphophiles ( cemetery and/or tombstone enthusiast ) out there , I ’m in the end putting my archive of interesting tombstones to good use .
Poor Benjamin Harrison . No one ever seems to retrieve that he was president , perhaps because he was just a one - termer from 1889 to 1893 .
In fact , on the way out of the White House after Grover Cleveland lost the election to Harrison , First Lady Frances Folsom Cleveland apparently tell one of the staff , “ Do n’t alter much — we’ll be back . " And they were , four years later . In the interim , Benjamin Harrison preside over the Oval Office , following in grandfather William Henry Harrison ’s footsteps .
In his four short years , Harrison did accomplish a few things . He signed the Land Revision Act of 1891 , which gave the president the right to set aside forest reserves . Harrison empower his first forest taciturnity in Yellowstone a month after the law was passed .
He also championed civil rightfulness — or at least tried to , endorsing the Federal Elections Bill that would give blacks the right to vote in the southward . The bill was filibustered in the Senate and failed to overhaul . One constabulary that did pass was the Sherman Anti - Trust Act , which aimed to break up monopoly and remains in outcome today .
Of course , Harrison had his failures , too . The Battle of Wounded Knee bechance under his watch , and many people felt that he and Congress wasted the economic excess by providing generous pensions to Civil War vet . The money in the coffers had all but vanished by the end of his term , and voter detect .
Grover Cleveland won the 1892 election by the biggest margin in 20 geezerhood . This , combined with the fact that Caroline Harrison had died two weeks before the election , resulted in Harrison leave office pretty quietly . He gave some lectures , digest William McKinley ’s tender for presidency , and remarry in 1896 . Because the 37 - year - honest-to-goodness woman he conjoin was new than his daughter , neither of his child attended his 2nd wedding .
picture by Stacy Conradt
In February 1901 , he came down with what he think was the flu . It was determined to be pneumonia when it claim his life history less than a calendar month after . He was buried at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis , along with his first wife . Mary , his 2d married woman , bring together them when she died 47 eld by and by .
Harrison had two fun presidential " first " under his belt : He was the first president to have electrical energy in the White House , although he and his married woman Caroline were not entirely well-heeled with it . They often went to seam with the ignitor blazing because they were concerned they would be electrocute if they touched the clean switch .
Harrison was also the first Chief Executive tohave his vox read .
See all entry in our Grave Sightings serieshere .
