Brief Life History of Frederick Benjamin
When Frederick Benjamin Harding was born on 29 August 1868, in Belleville, St. Clair, Illinois, United States, his father, William Harding, was 38 and his mother, Elizabeth Fear, was 36. He married Mary Elizabeth Gohn from 1896 to 1904, in Vermilion, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Hutchinson, Dakota Territory, United States in 1880 and East Saint Louis Township, St. Clair, Illinois, United States in 1900. He died on 15 July 1924, in East St. Louis, St. Clair, Illinois, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Danville, Vermilion, Illinois, United States.
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- Fred Harding in household of Robt H Harding, "United States Census, 1900"
- Frederick B. Harding, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Frederick B Harding, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1871
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
1885 · The First Skyscraper
The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Harding (Old English Hearding, literally ‘the hard one’ a derivative of Old English heard ‘hard, harsh, strong, firm, brave’). 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.
North German and Dutch: patronymic from a short form of any of various ancient Germanic compound personal names beginning with hard ‘hardy, brave, strong’, or a habitational name from a farm named Harding, of the same etymology.
History: Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865–1923), the 29th president of the US, was born on a farm in OH, of English and Scottish stock on his father's side. Early American bearers of this very common name include Joseph Harding who died at Plymouth in 1633. His great-great grandson Seth was a naval officer during the American Revolution.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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