Fremont County CO Archives Biographies.....Harding, Minnie Lahm June 13, 1857 - 
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Source: "History of Colorado," published by Linderman Co., Inc. Denver 1927
Author: James H. Baker & LeRoy R. Hafen, Ph D

Pages 199-200

   Mrs. Minnie Lahm Harding of Canon City was born in Canton, Ohio, June 13,
1857, and is a daughter of Samuel and Henrietta Lahm, the former of whom was
born in Leitersburg, Maryland, and the latter at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. 
She attended private schools and completed her studies in the Convent of the
Sacred Heart, Albany, New York, from which she was graduated.  On December 4,
1882, in Canton, Ohio, she was wedded to Theodore M. Harding and to this union
two children were born:  Theodore M., Jr., who was married to Miss Alice
Campbell; and Margaretta, who became the wife of Dr. S. S. Gale of Roanoke.
   Mrs. Harding is a democrat in her political faith and is a communicant of the
Protestant Episcopal church.  She served eight years as a member of the board of
regents of the University of Colorado and is active in good works.  She is a
member of the Friends in Council, the Dickens Club and many other organizations
having for their object the intellectual, social and civic betterment of the
community.  She was president of the Colorado State Federation of Women’s Clubs
from 1900 to 1902, and a notable achievement of her administration was the
establishment at her suggestion of the scholarship committee, through whose
beneficence more than eighty-five thousand dollars had been loaned to Colorado
girls to assist them in securing higher education.
   Mrs. Harding is president of the Harding Hardware Company; president of the
Harding Investment Company, and is keenly interest in business affairs.  During
the World war she was chairman for Fremont county of the women’s division of
food conservation; chairman of the women’s section of the National Council for
Defense; chairman of the women’s committee having charge of the American Red
Cross financial campaign, and organized the Victory Girls Brigade in Canon City
to assist in “putting over” the Liberty bond drives of the government.
   One of the many benefactions of Mrs. Harding to Canon City was the founding
by her of a public “clean-up day” in 1906, an institution that has survived for
almost a quarter of a century.  Spokane, Washington, was the first town in the
United States to establishe a community clean-up day.  Through the initiative of
Mrs. Harding, Canon City was the first to follow its example.


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