Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1920 — HARDING FAMILY OF STURDY STOCK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HARDING FAMILY OF STURDY STOCK

STERLING NEW ENGLAND ANCESTRY NOTED IN ATTRACTIVENESS OF G. O. P. CANDIDATE’S FOLKS. MAKE FRIENDS IN INDIANA

MRS. PHOEBE ELIZABETH DICKERSON HARDING, MOTHER OF THE SENATOR, WHO DIED IN 1910. Indianapolis, Oct 27.—(Special.)— Indiana people by personally meeting Senator Harding, his gracious wife, his patriotic father, his physician brother and his attractive sister have found them to be "regular folk, to use a complimentary term that many have applied. A few weeks ago civil war veterans attending the G. A. R. national encampment here had an opportunity to greet Dr. George T. Harding, Sr., father of Senator Harding, as their comrade. Dr. George T. Harding, Jr., a physician of Columbus, 0., and a brother of the candidate, was here with his father during the encampment. Then came opportunity for personal acquaintance with Senator and Mrs. Harding on their recent Indianapolis visit, and on Friday Indiana school teachers had the pleasure of meeting Miss Daisy Harding, a high school teacher at Marlon, 0., who Is a sister of the nominee. The mother of Senator Harding, who was Phoebe Elizabeth Dickerson, Is dead, having passed away in 1910. Senator Harding, comes of the sturdiest Anglo-Saxon-Celtic ancestry and the clear vision, hardiness, determination and other racial qualities that characterized his ancestors have been the principal and the most valued heritage handed down to the presidential pomlnee of the Republican party.

Senator Harding’s father. Dr. George Tyron Harding, comes of old New England stock. No less than six Hardings landed on American shores before the revolution. Abraham came to Massachusetts and’his widow settled in Boston; George Harding went to Salem, John to Weymouth and Robert to Connecticut. From the Connecticutu family of Robert Harding came Capt Stephen Harding, whose son, Abraham, was the father of Amos Harding . Amos Harding reared a family of fourteen beys, all of whom bore biblical names with the exception of George Tyron Harding, who was the father of Charles Alexander Harding and William Perry Harding. Charles Alexander Harding left but one son, Dr. George Tyron Harding, the father of Senator Warren G. Harding. Senator Hardirg was named for the Rev. Warren Gamaliel Bancroft, a Methodist preacher, and an uncle by marriage. Senator Harding's mother spent practically all of her life in Ohio and was known in her community as a very devout woman, especially versed in Biblical literature. She was of Irish-Scotch parentage. Senator Harding’s grandparents were Charles and Mary Ann Crawford Harding. Warren Harding is said by those who know him intimately to have inherited her fine and gracious traits and unusual gifts of mind and pen. Warren Harding and his mother were genuinely devoted to each other, their neighbors at Marlon, 0., say. and their lives were exemplary of the highest type of affection in the home.