page_title: Chester Harding (painter)
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Chester Harding (painter) / Personal life
context_page_description: Chester Harding was an American portrait painter known for his paintings of prominent figures in the United States and England.
context_section_description: On February 14, 1815, Harding was married to Caroline Matilda Woodruff (1795–1845) near Caledonia in Livingston County, New York. Caroline was the daughter of James Woodruff.  Together, they were the parents of nine children, including four sons, two each who fought on opposing sides in the Civil War:
  Mary Ophelia Harding (1818–1892), who married John Marshall Krum (1810–1888), the 11th Mayor of St. Louis, in 1839.
  Margaret Eliot Harding (1823–1908), who married Rev. William Orne White (1821–1911) in 1863.
  Chester Harding Jr. (1827–1875), a Union Army Brevet Brigadier General.
  Horace A. Harding (1828–1899), who married Amanda Perin Moore, daughter of Sydenham Moore, U.S. Representative from Alabama.
  James P. Harding (1830–1902), a General in the Missouri State Guard and Major in the Confederate States Army. He married Christina Amelia Cordell (1834–1899) in 1855.
  His wife died on August 27, 1845 in Springfield, Massachusetts.  Harding died in Boston on April 1, 1866, and is buried in Springfield Cemetery in Springfield.
caption: Portrait of his grandson, Chester Harding Krum.
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