Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-03
PRESIDENTS RECORD
ONE OF TRIUMPHS in
MANY GREAT ISSUES
Arms Farley and Success of
J Budget System Outstanding
Features of Career.

republican national convention to be
held next year was confidently pre-
dicted by leaders of the republican
party.
President Harding was the dark
horse" OF the republican national con-
Vention meeting in Chicago in 1920. He
was the compromise candidate selected
when the supporters of Gen. Leonard
Wood. Gov. Lowden and Senator Hiram
johnson had endeavored in vain to have
their candidates nominated. Some of
the influential republican leaders, at a
conference in the Blackstone Hotel in
the early morning hours determined
upon upon Mr.. Harding. and he was
nominated by the convention within the
next twenty-four hours.
Ohio Farm HardinE's Birthplace.
President Harding was born on farm
near the little village of Blooming Grove,
Morrow county. Ohio. November ?, 1866,
He was by profession and occupation a
newspaperman and ne had the dis
tinction of being the first active men,
Der this craft to be elected chief
magistrate. He likewise had the dis
tinction of being the first man to be
elevated to the White House directly
from the Senate.
The Presidents father. George T.
Harding, who still is living. has been
prominent as a physician and many
years of his life were spent as a
country practitioner. DIR. Harding
was a veteran of the civil war. and
warren, as a boy, grew up amid the
afterglow of the flaming patriotism
which preserved the Union.
The Hardings are of old colonial
come from Scotland. settling first in
Connecticut. They moved later to the
Wyoming valley in Pennsylvania.
where some of them were massacred
by the Indians. and others fought in
the revolutionary war. The Presi-
dents mother. who was Miss Phoebe
Dickerson. was descended from an
old time Holland Dutch family, the
Van Kinks. so that in Warren G..
Harding was found the blending of
and the fearless and liberty-loving
Scotch.
Eldest Of Eight Children.
The President was the eldest of
eight children, several of whom
achieved more than ordinary distinc-
ton. The country surrounding the
old homestead in Morrow county was
rough and thickiy wooded, and in
parts was only partially settled.
Many of the Inhabitants were en-
gagged in clearing land and shipping
timber to the cities, and it was at
such labor as telling trees, cutting
wood and piling it that the boy Hard
ing developed a robust physique and
love for outdoors, both of which stood
him well throughout his public life.
Besides wood-chopping and rail-Split-
ting, the boy worked hard at the va
rious odd jobs around the country
home, and in this manner early &C
quired the habit of industry.
Warren attended the village school
until he was fourteen years of age.
when he entered the Ohio Central
he graduated. 1t was while attending
this institution that he first displayed
a talent for journalism. For several
years before graduation he edited
the college paper. His education.
however. was frequently interrupted
by the necessity of having to leave
college to earn additional means of
support. and it was only by the aid of
these periodical occupations that he
was enabled to complete his college
course.
Frequently after becoming a nation
al figure he spoke fondly of those
odd jobs during his college days.
cutting corn. painting barns and
houses for neighbors, painting signs,
and at one time drove a team. He
also helped in the work of grading
the roadbed of the r. and o. 6. rail-
ne1sF fafied to IN smile 1nen telIina OF
the days when he played a horn in
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