Editing Carter Harrison III (section)

==Personal life==
===Marriages and late engagement===
On April 12, 1855, Harrison married his first wife, the former Sophie Preston.<ref name="gambler"/><ref name=patterson>{{cite book |title=The Assassination of Carter Harrison |publisher=A. Theo Patterson |url=http://moses.law.umn.edu/darrow/documents/Assassination_Carter_Harrison.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://moses.law.umn.edu/darrow/documents/Assassination_Carter_Harrison.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |access-date=May 22, 2020}}</ref><ref name="Booneville">{{cite web |title=Assassination Foul |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/602203286 |via=Newspapers.com |url-access=subscription |publisher=The Standard of Booneville, Indiana |access-date=31 January 2025 |language=en |date=November 3, 1893}}</ref> She hailed from the Preston family, a distinguished [[Southern United States|southern]] family.<ref name="Booneville"/><ref name="TopekaDailyPress1"/> Harrison and his first wife, Sophie, had ten children together. Six of their children died either in infancy or early childhood.<ref name="gambler"/><ref name="TopekaDailyPress1"/>

Harrison became a [[widower]] after Sophie died in Europe in 1876.<ref name=patterson/> After being widowed, Harrison married Margarette (alternatively spelled "Margaret" or "Marguerite") E. Stearns<!-- not Sterans --> in 1882.<ref name="Booneville"/><ref name=patterson/> Stearns was a member of one of Chicago's earliest and most wealthy families,<ref name="Booneville"/> being the daughter of Chicago pioneer [[Marcus C. Stearns]].{{citation needed|date=January 2025}} He was widowed again when she died in 1887.<ref name=patterson/>

At the time of his assassination, Harrison was engaged to a young New Orleans heiress named Annie Howard, daughter of [[Louisiana State Lottery Company]] organizer [[Charles T. Howard]], who had been worth an estimated $3,000,000,<ref name="gambler"/><ref name=patterson/> $700,000 of which she had inherited from him after his death.<ref name="TopekaDailyPress1"/>

===Children===
Harrison and his first wife, Sophie, had ten children together. Six of their children died either in infancy or early childhood.<ref name="gambler"/><ref name="TopekaDailyPress1">{{cite news |title=Carter Harrison |publisher=The Topeka Daily Press|language=en |date=November 2, 1893}}
*{{cite web |title=Carter Harrison |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/366127324 |via=Newspapers.com |url-access=subscription |publisher=The Topeka Daily Press|page=2 |access-date=5 February 2025 |language=en |date=November 2, 1893}}
*{{cite web |title=Carter Harrison |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/366127336 |via=Newspapers.com |url-access=subscription |publisher=The Topeka Daily Press|page=3 |access-date=5 February 2025 |language=en |date=November 2, 1893}}</ref> 

The four children whom survived to adulthood were Lina, Carter IV, William Preston, and Sophie.<ref name="TopekaDailyPress1"/>

Lina married [[Heaton Owsley]],<ref name="TopekaDailyPress1"/> and became the [[step-mother]] of [[Jack Owsley]] (who became a noted [[American football]] player and coach, as well as a successful businessman).<ref name=Wed>{{cite news|title=John E. Owsley Is Married: Nephew of Carter Harrison and Miss Helen Hall of New Haven Are Wedded There|newspaper=Chicago Daily Tribune|date=November 18, 1908|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/408264181.html?dids=408264181:408264181&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Nov+18%2C+1908&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=JOHN+E.+OWSLEY+IS+MARRIED.&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107064003/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/408264181.html?dids=408264181:408264181&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Nov+18,+1908&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=JOHN+E.+OWSLEY+IS+MARRIED.&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 7, 2012}}</ref> She and Owsley had a daughter who they also named Lina Harrison Owsley. This daughter of the Owsleys (granddaughter of Mayor Harrison) performed as an [[opera]] singer, studying opera under [[Hermann Devriès]]. In 1912, she married [[Paul Bartlett (painter)|Paul Bartlett]], a noted painter.<ref>{{cite web |title=Niece of Mayor Harrison to Seek Honors in Grand Opera This Winter, Plans Recital Soon |url=https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/?a=d&d=CEX19121102.1.9&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN---------- |website=idnc.library.illinois.edu |publisher=Chicago Examiner (published in Volume 10, Number 272) |access-date=5 February 2025 |date=November 2, 1872}}</ref>

Carter IV served as mayor of Chicago from 1887–1905 and 1911–1915. He married [[Edith Ogden]] (who would garner note as the author of children's fairytale books) in 1887.<ref>{{cite web |title=“A blazing, colorful panorama.” Edith Ogden Harrison remembers the 1893 World’s Fair |url=https://worldsfairchicago1893.com/2022/11/16/a-blazing-colorful-panorama-edith-ogden-harrison-remembers-the-1893-worlds-fair |website=Worlds Fair Chicago 1893 |access-date=5 February 2025 |date=16 November 2022}}</ref> Together, they had three children. Their firstborn died in infancy in 1889. Their other two children survived to adulthood: son Carter V (born in 1891) and daughter Edith II (born 1896).{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}