the legislature,the legislaturea charter to school, similar school for pennsylvania and he founded the school here in the as war secretary. lincoln and he sort of but heads. cameron was a little involved in graft. ownas moving troops by his railroads and lincoln was taking heat from it. he dismissed him as war secretary and made him minister to russia in the middle of the winter. --ittle earlier than that this is wall he was putting up the house for sale. the president had sent cameron and his wife and daughter over .o russia he decided to send back to one of his cohorts to buy this house. he and his wife -- by way of france -- basically did a shopping trip for this new house. they wanted a victorian house because they had seen all of this in europe, it was called the victorian age. feelings on everything, and they said that's what i want for that house. the original layout was for rooms of, for rooms down. john harris had five children by his first wife and 10 by his second. he had 15 children running around here. it was a mix of plantation as well as wilderness. this house had been a