When LeGrand Doran Harding was born in February 1846, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, his father, Alvin Milton Harding, was 29 and his mother, Violette Otis Chase, was 24. He married Ida Estella Dickson on 14 August 1873, in Clackamas, Clackamas, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. He lived in Oregon City, Clackamas, Oregon, United States in 1880 and Whitman, Washington, United States in 1900. He died on 27 June 1901, in Colfax, Whitman, Washington, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Oregon City, Clackamas, Oregon, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
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