Norwich bulletin., 1920-06-29
SENATOR HARDING's ANCESTORS
 LIVED IN THE HADDAMs

Senator Warren Harding of Ohio, re- publican candidate for president of the United States is of Connecticut descent, according to Editor William M. Clemens of the Genealogy Magazine, who finds that Senator Hardings grand father, George Harding, was born down in one of the Haddams of the fourth generation of Connecticut HardingS. Ed itor Clemens figures it out this way for the Boston Globe:
 Nathan Harding the direct ancestor of the Ohio senator was born in Middle Haddam, that unique nutmeg section, known to the psychologists as north, east, south, west middle and other Haddams.' and as one student of family history de- clared, he wished the devil had 'em." Tn the year 1774, Nathan Harding married Philena Clark of East Hampton, who was born in 174S. There was a Nathan, Jr. born in 177S whose grandson was General Abner Clark Harding, born in 1897. Another grandson George, who married a Warren. settled in Ohio early | in the century, and among his numer- ous sons was George Tyron Harding, the father of the senator. The mother of the senator was Phoebe Elizabeth Dickerson. George T. Harding was born in 1s44 and graduated from the Cleveland Medical 1 college in 1874.
 ] 1 lage of Corsica in Morrow county. Ohio. on November 2, 1865, and is therefore in his 55th year.
 Senator Harding is of Gothic descent through a long line of illustrious ances- try, and early American colonial history.
 The surname Harding is derived from the very ancient Gothic and was in use 1 in Britain, Scandinavia and Germany. even before the coming of the ancient feudal system. Several persons bear ing the name Harding are mentioned in the year 10S6, in the Doomsday Book
 and there are numerous localities in Flu
 rope bearing this name or its derivities
 like Hsrdinton, Hardingbrook and liar
 dingvale.
 Joseph Harding came from England ir
 1923 David, one of the line of Joseph settled in Wellheet and married Sarah
 Brown. David was a soldier in the Rev. olution and as for that patriotic matter
 no less than sixteen Hardings served ir the war of 177e.
 "The Connecticut Hardings, iron
 whom Senator Harding descends, ,wer, the descendants of Joseph and weF, , among the early settlers of MidieseI
 county. The Connecticut Hardings in termarried with the Ciarks ,Thurbers
 Staffords, Sookes, Gateses, filings
 Baileys and others.
 "Senaotr Harding is the eldest of egh
 children. His only unmarried sister is
 teachers of English in the Marion (ohio public schools. His mother, Phoebe Eliz
 abeth Dickerson, who was born nea
 Harper's Ferry in 17e4. The father 6 \ Joshua was from Monmouth county, \ I J., where he was born in 1T4o. and befor , that date the family were in New Yor f state. Joshua first settled in wester , Pennsylvania and then went to Ohio. H e had fourteen children, among then I Thomas who married Mary Curry. H : was one of the most celebrated of Chi t pioneers. There were a score of Dikes sons in the war of the Revolution,
 among them David of the New Jerse
 family, who made a great record as
 Continental fighter.
 II Tn 1891 Senator Harding married Mis- > Florence King of Marion. Ohio vh !. .. comes of an old Pennsylvania family f Revolutionary ancestry. They have ! Il children"