(23) Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison

Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison

Websites

First Ladies National Library Biography of Caroline Harrison

Papers/letters collections

Manuscripts for: Caroline Harrison

Historical sites

Caroline Scott Harrison Chapter House and Museum

Fascinating details

First ‘first lady’ to have a Christmas tree in the White House.
First ‘first lady’ to have electricity in the White House.
The causes she supported include women’s rights, preservation of the White House, as well as being an advocate for the arts.
She started the White House china collection.
She helped found and fund the John Hopkins Medical School.
She was the first president-general of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
She was the second first lady to die in the White House (the first being Letitia Tyler), dying of tuberculosis in 1892.