Ralph Conrad Harding

4 June 1874–5 February 1958 (Age 83)
Palestine, Crawford, Illinois, United States

The Life of Ralph Conrad

When Ralph Conrad Harding was born on 4 June 1874, in Palestine, Crawford, Illinois, United States, his father, John Henry Harding, was 39 and his mother, Elizabeth Ann Whipkey, was 33. He married Nettie May Cochran on 12 August 1900. He lived in Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States in 1935 and Nickerson, Reno, Kansas, United States in 1940. He died on 5 February 1958, at the age of 83, and was buried in Osborne, Osborne, Kansas, United States.

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Ralph Conrad Harding
1874–1958
Nettie May Cochran
1877–1957
Marriage: 12 August 1900

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MARRIAGE
12 August 1900

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World Events (8)

1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

Age 1

In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1877 · The First Workers Strike

Age 3

The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

Age 22

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

Name Meaning

1 English (mainly southern England and South Wales) and Irish: from the Old English personal name Hearding, originally a patronymic from Hard 1. The surname was first taken to Ireland in the 15th century, and more families of the name settled there 200 years later in Tipperary and surrounding counties.2 North German and Dutch: patronymic from a short form of any of the various Germanic compound personal names beginning with hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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  • Ralph C Harding, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Ralph C Harding, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Ralph C Harding, "United States Census, 1930"

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