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GEN. HARRISON'S SISTER._SHE IS IN EVERY WAY A CHARM-I NO WOMAN.Living Hero in Cincinnati on Mt, Auburn—She Talk* Entertainingly of the Family History and of HerBrother as a Roy.CntCtKKATt, July 4.Last evening a reporter of this paper fled far from the madding crowd up the Bellevue incline to call upon Mrs. Dr. Eaton, sister of Gen. Benjamin Harrison. For several weeks newspaper men have been searching diligently for her and at lust she was found. Mrs. Emotf is living at No. 1H0 Ohio avenue, which is just at the top of th« hill in the neighborhood of the Bellevue House. Her cousin who owns and occupies the house has gone to California, and Mrs. Euton has taken it for the summer.The house is a large brick, surrounded by broad porticos and a splendid stretch of greenswurd, dotted tktekly with tine old trees that shade the house from the heat of summer, and among whose branches u gentle cooling win d is ever stirring. ,The reporter was ushered into a large, well furnished parlor, through the windows of which the distant uproar of the city came In waves of pleasant sound. Presently a quiet, slender woman, somewhat beneath the middle height, came into the room and greeted tin rei»orter with the courtly politeness of a woman of high breeding. This was Mrs. Dr. Eaton. Her face bore the strongly marked, firm fea- , litres of the Harrisons. Bhe had the same nose which appears in all their features, While her large, blue eyes beamed with great kindliness. Her manners were unassuming and charming in the extreme. Bhe laughed pleasantly and said: ]“I was just flattering myself that I had escaped the reporters. I saw In the paper that they had been unable to tind me. But I see that I was congratulating myself too•oon,” ;■ ' 1 'Id
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Weekly Cincinnati Times
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Thu, Jul 12, 1888
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