The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-19
AGED FATHER
OF PRESIDENT
HARDING DEAD
Paralytic Stroke Is Fatal; Flu.
neral Services to BE Held
in Ohio State

Santa Ana, Calf, Nov. 19.-(P)--
E9. George Harding, father of the
late President Warren 6. Harding,
died here this morning as the result
Of paralytic stroke last Friday.
He was IS years old. DR.. Harding
came here two weeks ago from
Marion, O., to spend the winter.
Mrs. Harding and daughter,
Mrs. Carl Votaw, of Washington,
d. c., were at the bedside, as was
Mrs. f. E. Remsberg, sister at
whose home he had been staying.
1t was announcedthat funeral serv-
ices would be held here and that the
body would be sent to Ohio tomor-
row for burial.
DR.. Harding, prominent in fra.
ternal affairs, activities of the Red
Cross and in medical societies, with
a lineage that dated hack into early
American history, was born June
II, 1874, in Morrow county. Ohio.
He was the only son of Charles A.
and Mrs. Mary A. (Crawford) Hard
ing, pioneers Of that section Of the
state.
Long Family Record
The doctor traced his ancestral
record back many generations. The
original name was Harodenc. On
the maternal side Of the Crawfords
and the Davises were connected, DR..
Harding's maternal grandfather be-
ing a first cousin of Jefferson
Davis. His grandmother Crawford
was a first cousin of Alexander
Stephens, leading statesman for
the southern cause.
He bore the name Of his great
neutrality-suspicious., Governor
Tryon of Connecticut. He was edu-
Gated in Morrow county, attending
the rural school at Bloomingrove,
old Ohio Central college at iberia,
Ohio, and the Cleveland Homeo-
pathic college. He was graduated
from the medical school in 1873, fol-
lowing which he continued to prac-
tice at Caledonia until 1882, when he
moved to Marion. He built the Star
office block on East Center street,
Marion, and occupied an upstairs
corner room for more than 40 years.
For many, many years he was an
active member of the national and
state homeopathic societies and of
the Round Table Homeopathic Medi-
cal Society in Columbus.
He also was conspicuous in nation
al and state G.. A. r. circles, serv-
ing as surgeon general at one time
Of the national body Of civil war
veterans.
Married at II
In 1864, DR.. Harding was married
to Miss Phoebe Elizabeth Dickerson,
of Morrow county. She died in 1909
in Marion. To them the following
children were born: Almira and
Charles, both Of whom died when
children and are buried at Gale
donia; Warren G. Harding, who was
nominated for the presidency Of the
United States by the Republican
convention in 1920 on his fathers
birthday and was elected on his own
birthday; Charity Harding, the wife
Of E. 4. Remsberg, Of Santa Ana,
California; Mary Harding, who died
after teaching for many years in
the state school for the blind at Col
umbus, Ohio; Miss Abigail v. Hard
ing, a teacher in the Marion public
schools; Caroline Harding, wife of
the Rev. Heber Votaw, superintend-
ent Of federal prisons and for Is
years missionary in India, and DR..
George Tryon Harding, jr., who is
now conducting a rest home and
sanitarium at Worthington, Ohio.
At the age of II, DIR. Harding
was married again to Miss Alice
Severns. DR.. Harding's fraternal
associations were with the Odd Eel
lows and Knights of Pythias. He
had been supreme commander and
supreme medical director of the
Order of the Red Cross. Always he
was a friend of all religious work,
identifying himself with the Baptist
church, although he often said he
was a liberal in his theological
views. 81 regard a man for what
he is and not for his particular re-
ligious connections or church rela-
tion," he frequently said.