Elizabeth Harrison Walker (February 21, 1897 – December 25, 1955) was the third and youngest child of U.S. President Benjamin Harrison, and the only child with his second wife, Mary. She was only four when Benjamin Harrison died.
Biography
Born in Indiana in 1897, she graduated from New York University School of Law in 1919 and was admitted to the bar in Indiana and New York.
Elizabeth Harrison participated in a 1916 Emergency Services Corps camp in New Jersey. This camp was conducted in the name of military preparedness as tensions grew in Europe, but the intention was never to train women for the trenches, rather to train women on how better to serve the war effort. At this camp, women learned to shoot rifles, ride horses, practice flag signaling, hike for 30 miles at a time, and perform first aid procedures. They had 2 children, Benjamin Harrison Walker (b. 1921 d. 1995) and Jane Harrison Garfield (née Walker) (b. 1929 d. 2020). Jane Walker married Newell Garfield, a grandson of Interior Secretary James Rudolph Garfield, and great-grandson of President James Garfield.
Jane and her husband, Newell, had one daughter, Eliza, and granddaughter, Sirjana. Benjamin married Elizabeth Sillcocks Walker and had two sons.
Elizabeth Harrison was the founder and publisher of Cues on the News, an investment newsletter for women.