The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-10-23
true ANCESTRY OF
SENATOR HARDING

One of the first Hardings to arrive
in America was Abraham Harding, of
Braintree, Mass, who came from Eng
land, possibly with Captain Georges,
in 1923. He married Elizabeth Adams
in 1880. He became a proprietor at
Medfield, Mass, in 1850. and died
there In 1866, leaving a son, Abraham,
who was born in that year.
A near relative of the first Abraham
was Stephen Harding, of Braintree
and Providence. He was born about
1924 and married Bridget Esten Tor
Estance), sister or other near rela-
tive of Thamas Estance, of Swanzey,
R. l. Thomas Estance was a Welsh
man and came to America from Her.
fordshire, England. Stephen Harding
was admitted to membership in the
Baptist church at Swanzey. He was a
blacksmith. Later he removed to
Providence. where he died February
20, 1898.
His son, Abraham Harding, died in
Providence, November %, 1894, leav-
ing widow, Deborah, and seven chill
dren, one Of whom, Stephen, was born
in Providence in 1851. He had six
children, five of whom were sons. Two
of these, Abraham and Stephen, were
the sons who settled in Wyoming VAL
ley.
Abraham was born at Warwick, r.
l., In 1920. He removed to Waterford,
Conn, in 1882 and in 1861 to Orange
county, N. ]. He married Anna Dol
son and died in Susquehanna county.
Pa, in 1906. Abraham Harding served
in he Revolutionary war as second
lieutenant in Colonel William Alli-
sans regiment of New York Militia,
being commissioned by the provincial
Congress December /, 1775. In 1856
he was appointed captain and later
second major of his regiment. His
brother, Captain Stephen Harding,
commanded Fort Jenkins at the time
Of the Wyoming massacre.
Captain Abraham Harding's son,
Abraham, Jr., was born at Waterford,
Conn.,, in 174O. He accompanied his
father to New York state in 1861. The
following year he returned to Con-
necticut and there marrned Huldah
Tryon, and they settled near his ia
TIERS farm in Orange county, N. Y.
In TIT he and his family, with two
brothers, left Orange county for the
Connecticut settlement of Westmore-
land at Wyoming, where his uncle
Stephen, had settled In 1869. His IA
ther followed them five years later.
The younger Abraham Harding's
Oldest son, Amos, was born at Port
Jervis, N. Y, March 10, 1894, and lived
in the Wyoming Valley from 1777 to
1900. In 1884 he married Phoebe
Trip, cousin of Francis Slocum
the "lost sister of Wyoming" In 1906
he removed to Susquehanna county
Pa, and from thence to Richland
county, Ohio, where he died in 1889.
His third son, George Tyron Hard.
ing, was born June Is. 1890, and died
January 3, 1860. He married Eliza
Madison May /, 1916. Their son
Chas. Alexander Harding, born April
s, 1920, and died April II, 1878, mar
ried in 1912 Mary Ann Crawford, the
daughter Of Joshua Crawford, who
was born in Baltimore and was the
son Of John Crawford of Irish-Scotch
descent whose family originated in
Scotland, it is thought, In the Parish
Crawford, Lanarkshire.
DR.. George Tyron Harding, father
Of Warren G. Harding, is the. son of
Charles Alexander and Mary Ann
Crawford Harding. He was born in
1874 and married Phoebe Elizabeth
Dickerson, who was born in 1S43 and
died in 1910. She was descended from
Van Kirk family, which came from
Holland about 1880, and most OF
whose descendants settled in Pennsyl-