The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-06-14
WARREN G. HARDING
Warren G. Harding, republican

Warren G.. Harding, republican
nominee for president, has always
been resident of Ohio which
state he has represented as United
States senator since 1914. In pri-
vate business life he is publisher
OF the Marion, Ohio. Star.
He was born on a farm, near
the village OF Blooming Grove,
Morrow county. Ohio, November
2, 1865, the eldest of eight chill
dren. His father, George Il. Har-
ding, was country doctor. whose
forebears came from Scotland.
Before going to Ohio. the Har-
dings were residents of Pennsyl-
vania, where some of them were
massacred by Indians. Others
fought in the revolutionary war.
The mother Of Warren, Mrs.
Phoebe Dickerson, was descended
from an old-time Holland Dutch
family, the Van Kinks.
In his youth Warren Harding
lived the life OF farmer boy, at
tending the village school until
IA years of age, when he entered
Ohio Central college of Iberia,
from which he was graduated.
AS editor of the college paper he
first displayed talent for journ-
alism. 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 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
village printing Office, in time be-
coming an expert typesetter and
later a linotype operator. He is
practical pressman and job
printer, and as a make up man"
is said to have few equals. The
luck piece he has carried rs
senator is the old printers rule
he used when he was sticking
type.
In 1884 DR.. Harding moved his
family to Marion. A short time
afterward the father purchased
for Warren Harding the Star, then
a small paper.
On the paper Warren Harding
performed every function from
devil to managing editor. In all
the years the senator has owned
it there has never been strike
or a threatened one.
Senator Harding is closely iden-
titled with many other large bust
ness enterprises in Marion and
other parts of the state. He is
director of a bank and several
large manufacturing plants, and
is a trustee of the Trinity Baptist
church.
Harding has twice represented
the thirteenth senatorial district
OF Ohio in the state legislature
and served one term as lieuten-
ant governor. At the 1914 cleo
ton Harding was elected Uni>ed
States senator by a majority of
more than 100000, running $4,000
ahead of the next highest on the
ticket. In the senate he is a
member Of the committee on for
eign relations. Senator Harding
married Miss Florence King in
1891.
St Louis Globe Democrat: The
prolonged agony is over,
and Warren G. Harding is
The republican candidate for
President of the United
States. After the hardest strug-
gle in forty years, the convention,
as it did in 1880, turned to Ohio.
the mother of presidents" for
It's candidate. This is not the
anly coincidence These two con-
tests, 1880 and 1920, caused the
only deadlocks in the history OF
the republican party. In the con-
vention of 1880 Garfield was not
candidate, and the delegates did
not turn to him until they had
balloted four days with out result.
Harding was a candidate, but he
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