Anna Tuthill Harrison Taylor
(1813-1865)
BIRTH
1813
PLACE
DEATH
1865
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
William Henry Harrison
(1773-1841)
MOTHER
Anna Harrison
(1775-1864)
BROTHER
Carter Bassett Harrison
(c. 1756-1808)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Anna Tuthill Harrison Taylor (1813–1865) was William Henry Harrison’s youngest daughter, born at North Bend, Ohio. In 1836 she married her second cousin William Henry Harrison Taylor, later a Civil War colonel and Minnesota state librarian. Her letters to brother-in-law John Cleves Short survive in Indiana University’s collections and the Library of Congress’s family papers. They record personal life within the Harrison family after her father’s brief presidency.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Anna Tuthill Harrison’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Anna Tuthill Harrison is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Anna Tuthill Harrison died in 1865. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
William Henry Harrison Tomb State Memorial
41 Cliff Rd, North Bend, OH, 45052, USA
GRAVE
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
Anna Tuthill Harrison Taylor (1813–1865), President William Henry Harrison’s daughter, distinct from her mother, first lady Anna Symmes Harrison. Five dedicated biographies were not identified. These editorial selections include biographies where available, with personal writings, collective biography, reference works and related studies clearly labelled.
1. Harrison, Waples and Allied Families — William Welsh Harrison. [Family biographical reference] Find on Amazon
2. A Genealogy of the Wives of the American Presidents and Their First Two Generations of Descent — Craig Hart. [Family biographical reference] Find on Amazon
3. Old Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison and His Time — Freeman Cleaves. [Related biography of her father] Find on Amazon
4. William Henry Harrison — Gail Collins. [Related biography of her father] Find on Amazon
5. America’s First Families: An Inside View of 200 Years of Private Life in the White House — Carl Sferrazza Anthony. [Related collective family biography] Find on Amazon
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