 From there he moved to the National Theatre in Cincinnati, Ohio and after this managed the Athenaeum in Columbus, Ohio, for three seasons.In August, 1873, Harry and Ellen's five-year-old daughter, Alice Bell, died.In October of the same year Harry Sargent remarried to actress Hannah E. Bailey (1847-1900)

In 1875 Sargent was manager for the actor and playwright Dion Boucicault, who had recently returned to America from Europe.