The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-06-14
Forebears of Republican
Nominee Came from Scot
land Many Years Back
HE EARNED HIS WAY
THROUGH SCHOOL
He Is a Newspaper Pub
Usher Although Identified
With Other Businesses

resident OF Ohio, which state he ha
| represented in the United States Sen
ate since 1914. In private business he /
publisher OF the Marion, o., Star.
He was born ON farm, near tn
village OF Blooming Grove, Morrow
county. Ohio, November ,, 1865, Thu
eldest of eight children. His father
| George T. Harding, was country doc
ton whose forebcars came from Scot
land. Before going to Ohio, the Hard
| ings We're residents of Pennsylvania
where some of them were massacred by
Indians. Others fought in the reyolu.
| tionarv war. The mother of Warren
| Mrs. Phnbe Dickerson, was descended
! from an old time Holland Dutch fam.
| lily, the Van Kinks.
In his youth Warren Harding lived
the life of farmer boy attending the
village school until IA years Of age,
when he entered Ohio Central College
OF IBERIA, from which he was gradu
ated. As editor of the college paper he
first displayed talent for journalism.
He was obliged to stop school now and
then and earn the money with which
to pursue his college course. AT one
time he cut corn, at another painted
barns and at still another time drove
team and helped TO grade the roadbed
OF new railway. At II he taught
district school and played horn IN
the village brass band
At odd times he worked in the vii
lage printing office. in time becoming
an expert typesetter and later hno-
type operator. He is a practical press
man and job printer, and as make.
IN man" is said to have few equals.
The luck piece he has carried as SEN
ator is the old printers rule he used
when he was tticking type.
In 1884 Dir Harding moved his fam
ilv to Marion. A short time afterward
the father purchased for Warren Hard
ing The Star, then small paper.
On the paper Warren Harding per
formed every function from devil 10
managing editor. In all the years the
senator has owned it there has never
been strike or a threatened one.
Senator Harding is closely identified
with many other large business enter
prises in Marion and other parts of the
state. He is director OF bank and sew
eral manufacturing plants and is a
trustee Of the Trinity Baptist church
Mr.. Harding has twice represented
the 18th senatorial district of Ohio in
the state legislature and served one
term as lieutenant governor. At the
1914 election Harding was elected Unit
Ell States senator by a majority of
more than 100000. running $4,000
ahead of the next highest on the tick
ei. In the Senate he is member Of the
on foreign relations Sen
ator Harding married Miss Florence
King in 1891,
Coolidge Vermont Raised Man.
Calvin Coolidge of Northampton,
Mass, the present chief executive Of
who was nominated for
vice president by the Republicans, was
little known outside of Massachusetts, |
until the greater part Of the police |
force of Boston went on strike in Sep /
TENDER. 1919 Coolidge. as governor OF |
The state. ordered ont the state guard |
10 patrol the streets Of Boston after a |
night of rioting and announced that |
aw and order would be preserved He /
declared that the strikers were desert. /
r. and that their places would be filled
~ other men.
The strikers never regained their po-
,itions. Troops maintained order for
leyeral weeks and a new police force
vas recruited The stand taken by the
governor carried his name to all parts
II the country, and in his own state he
vas promptly nicknamed Law and |
lrder Coolidge"
Calvin Coolidge was born on a farm
IA the little village of Plymouth. Vt,
N July ,. 1872 His father. in addition
o carrying on the farm was the vii
age storekeeper. Coolidge's ancestors,
rom the time John Coolidge settled in
tatertown, Mass, in l6S0, were all
armers. /,
Young Calvin worked on the farm
nd in the store and attended the vii
age school. Then he progressed in his
ducation in academies IN the Vermont
owns Of Ludlow aud ST. Johnsbury and j
is father sent him to Amherst college. ]
L the commencement exercises in the ,
ear Of his graduation from college he
.as one OF the class orators.
Coolidge next studied law in the Of ,
&c of a law firm in Northampton to
lch good effect that after 20 months
igging at the law books he was ad- 9