Harriet White was born in Crawford County , Pennsylvania on March 31 , 1861 . She was the daughter of Oscar A. White and Hannah Fisher , and was educated at The Young Women 's Classical Seminary in Cleveland Ohio . At the time of the Johnstown Flood she took care of victims . Wu Tingfang , Chinese diplomat and politician , called Mrs. Harriet White Fisher " The most wonderful woman in America . " Her first known marriage was to Clark Fisher . They were married in London , England on July 20 , 1898 . The report of their marriage in the '' Trenton Evening Times '' states the bride 's name as Mrs. White , a widow who moved to Flushing , Queens in 1896 . However , a later interview of Harriet Fisher , stated she was a " White " by birth and her mother was distantly related to her husband . Fisher died in 1903 . She married again on April 27 , 1912 to Sylvan Alfredo Andrew , an officer in the Argentine Navy , in Manhattan . It was described as a quiet ceremony in the press because the groom 's brother had died on the '' Titanic '' a few days earlier
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