Family
Harrison's first wife was Mary Crocker, daughter of California railroad and mining magnate Charles Frederick Crocker. They had married on June 7, 1900. She died in 1905 in an automobile accident leaving Harrison to raise two small daughters, the eldest was Virginia Randolph Harrison, and the youngest was Barbara Harrison Wescott. Harrison would marry and divorce five more times to: Mabel Judson Cox, Elizabeth Wrentmore, Margaret Wrentmore and Doria Lee. His last wife, Maria Teresa, a young Filipino woman, outlived Harrison.
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