The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-31
HEROES NAMED
ON FAMILY TREE
Ancestors Of Harding in Rev
olutionary War With New
York State Militia.
LINE GOES BACK TO 1923
Blood in Veins Includes Anglo
Saxon. German, Scotch, Irish,
Welsh and Dutch.


Formerly EeGstvor- General Daughters
OF the Auee~icon Re0oluf;on.
wAsuISoToE, Oct. SO.--In the sew
eral sketches OF Senator Hsrdings s
ancestry that have been published
from time TO time his relationship 70
the Harding families of tho Wyoming
Valley, Pennsylvania, has been en-
phasiged to the exclusion OF the dis.
tinguished services of his ovn i'm
mediate ancestors. Capt. Abraham
Harding, from whom the Senator Is
directly descended. serred severa.
years in the State troops from Orang 9.
county, New York, during the Rcvolu.
ton.
Some years later he moved TO Mon
roe county. New York. His son Amos
with his wife, Phebe Tripp, a de-
scendant CT the we'll known Trlpp
family Of Rhode Island, settled in
Richland county. Ohio, where his son
and grandson, the Senator's great
grandfather and grandfather. married
respectively, Elizabeth Madison and
Mary Ann Crawford, descendants OF
we'll known Virginia families.
On his mothers side the Senator hs:
equally distin nguished ancestry, she be
ing the daughter OF Isaac Dicssrson and
Charity Van Kirk. The Dicsersont
we're OF the Monmouth county. New
Jersey. family. which found its waJ
through Pennsylvania TO Ohio. Th'
father of Isaac Thomas Dickerson. wa,
Methodist minister. whose record ir
that church is as "a shining light dur
ing the early days OF Methodisu Il
Ohio.
The Senator'S grandmother, Chart,
Van Kirk, was the daughter OF VIII
lam Van Kirk. who. with six brothers
fought IN the patriotic army OF th'
Revolution. The Van Kirk family, in
deed. like the Dic&erson, Harding
Crawford and other allied families ren
dered valuable services 60 the country
during tho Colonial and Revolutionsr,
periods
Under washinRton's Hammer.
Senator IIarding's sister. Miss Abigail
Harding OF Marion. Ohio. has been fo'
several years an active ard vsluct
member OF the Daughters Of the Amer
lean Revolution. and Il is only lust tha
these facts should be known tina; IN,
American people may realize that th'
Republican candidate FOR President is q
lineal descendant in every respect o'
American patriots who stood for ,h'
principles Of American liberty aat
fought under the hammer Of Washing
ton for tho establishment OF American
independence.
The Presidents OF tho United State
have been men OF notable ancestry, bu
~ man in the White House has had 9
more distinguished line o, forebears
with a finer record OF service, citizen
ship and patriotism than Warren q. Fla
ding. In the Republican candidate foi
President are mingled the strains or IN
Puritan Of New England snd the Csva
lier OF Virginia. In his veins flows tn
blood OF English. German. Welsh. Scotch
frsh and Dutch. And this blood hai
been spent on bsttisfieids where tn
stake was justice and independence. IN
ancestors died In the battles fought b.
pioneers against the British and thei
indian allies, and the records Of the Rev
oiutionary Wsr bear the names OF man.
Of his progen'torz on both paternal an,
maternal sides.
The phiioiogy OF the name Hsrding
interesting, and ~ IL typical OF tho met
and women who besr II. Harding mean
bold. courageous daring ana stou
hearted" The history OF the Bs riding
(who came TO America tcoru England 81
t6s3) is one OF daring and ooursge.
IN the story OF the pioneers who ira {
eiied In small bands. rlfle and axe s
hand. their slender outnts on pac
horses, penetrating the trscifiess wilder
ness 10 win homes for themselves an
their progeny. They came by this In
domitablo spirit rightly. for their ar
cestors were pioneers In other lands.
II was about 1850 thet Welsh bloc
was rasnglcd with the Harding straii
re ~ IN the last four generations tcover
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