Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-07-24
SOME MARION CITIZENS
DECLARE MRS HARDING
POWER BEHIND THRONE

MARION. Ohio. July e3--Mrs War.
ron q. Harding. wiz " the republican
presidential non.inr' was pu,n att
r,ndad In this c.,y and WIS married Ia
Senator Harding In the house on Mt.
Vernon avenue wh,rc the fiardings
4 now live
While few rcsidcnts/of Marion coun.
- fty they ever Thought oi Warren
Harding, when % bay. lH president 81
the United States. many ot them. ana
particularly tho vumor. say they pie
,iur'd Mrs Harding as the fird lady
~ the lard
Many of Mrs lllrding's girlhocd
,humf are slill liyiug In Marion They
ull rpclk uf her HH Florence" 81"
never md nickname they say. but
Most everybody spoke e her When
O. girl as "tomhuy.' "llarmfcarum."
'.tunhorn," jolly ur daredevil
one thing IL certain. however Mar.
Ion women are roofing fur Mira Hard.
ing fh,y are roofing Tor hc.. they
say because "shp h,H mind OF nyr
Swu. generally manages To gct ssh 4
zine Ntnts Is thorough, democratic
likes a. give aud go g. parties II ln.
tcrc.,cj In o hundred and one things.
,n,ws how 10 tilk 10 everyone. TN.
Guiding mcnL and oucr N. knows YOU.
,hc always knows tou.'
Mis-. Harding In MARION his q rcpr.
Sition II being real woman Man"
residents congratulate Warren Hard
.ng more ON his aIfc than his Political
career and some oi them who are root.
ing little harder than others Ter her
,ry she Is thu power behind the
throne"
Mrs Harding was born August f..
1860. ana + five years senator Hnul'
iug's Hcnior She attended the public
schools and high school OF Marion, and
afterwards studied music at the en-
Cinnau Conservatory Of Music. As a
little girl SHE IL know In Marion ~
having preferred to play with boys
than girls and many recall her
dressed In full skirt and luutalcttcs ut
the time. ana picture her with one
panttl";tc mp and the other down"
Florence King Mrs Hlrdings
name before her marriage was one u
the greatest hurscwumcn | have ever
seen" aid Mrs. Margaret Younkins. a
Mariunitc who has known Mrs Hard
ing since childhood she rode anl
drove more like a man than a girl"
Mrs Younlans said Florence could
curry a horse 0tch mp and drive iu,t
rs well a. any man. Marion was MOI .
accustomed to seeing Florence Killing
dashing madly up the street ON BillN,
her saddle horse. than walking dcnurc.
t. along like other girls Of her "sct
he added.
Mrs Frank johnson and Mrs Laura
Dombaugh. girlhuud friends of AlrS.
harding. both attcstcd To the fact that
"shc had will uf her own" and toll
~ the days when they piled into
f1orcncc's phacton and rode with per.
feet confidence behind Florcncc's
speedy Billy"
Residents ~ Marion siill talk ~ the
displcasurc Of her father. Amos Kling
over her marriage to Henry De Wolf
ana her later determination to marry
Warren G. Harding In 1891. after her
first husbands death Mrs llarding's
two grandchildren are George Warren
and Jean d. Wolfe. ~ Marion.
Warren and Florence Harding were
married In their pTcsrnt home ~
Mount Vernon avenue. For moro than
J.. years, until Illness prevented Mrs
Harding was circulation manager 81
the Sinr--hcr husbands newspaper. In
addition she was the registration bu
rcau uf complaints, advertising man
...r and nnrnl IN tho nrWshnVs