Bio of HARDING, George Parker, Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

G. PARKER HARDING (George Parker Harding) - Vol II, pg 632-635
Since 1885 G. Parker Harding has resided in Minneapolis and he is prominently
known in business circles here as vice president of the grain concern of E. S.
Wood-worth & Company. He was born in the Province of New Brunswick, Canada, and
there he received his academic education.
In the summer of 1885 G. Parker Harding came to Minneapolis and made his initial
step into the grain business. He was with F. H. Peavey & Company from that year
until 1890, when he became associated with E. S. Woodworth as vice president of
E. S. Woodworth & Company, and he has been a prime factor in the continued
growth of the business. Mr. Harding has other business interests and is
secretary of the Concrete Elevator Company.
On the 26th of September, 1888, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was celebrated the
marriage of Mr. Harding to Miss Maude Helliwell and to their union the following
children have been born: Mrs. Robert F. Pack; Jane, who is studying in Paris,
France; and Lieutenant George H., who was killed in France. He was a young man
of high spirit, fine mentality and dauntless courage. Upon the entrance of the
United States into the World war he went to Canada and entered the Aero School
in Toronto. There he mastered the preliminary three-months course and was given
his diploma in five days. He then went to Camp Borden and in four weeks covered
the five-months course and was made instructor. Soon thereafter he .was sent to
England and thence to France, as scout of a fighting squadron. He at once
evinced the qualities of an ace and quickly became one of the most noted
fighters in the British air service. His success in fighting the German flyers
was so great that his daring led him to attack the land forces, sweeping down
low to attack them. In one such raid into the German lines, he was caught in a
machine gun area and shot down. The Germans gave him an honorable burial but it
took eleven months of search on the part of his parents and sisters to locate
his grave. He is now buried in the English Military Cemetery in France. Mr. and
Mrs. Harding have received two medals and two certificates of honor for him,
sent by the King of England since his demise. He was killed on the 27th of
March, 1918, and was but twenty-five years of age.
G. Parker Harding is a strict adherent of the republican party and the
principles for which it stands. He is essentially a public-spirited citizen and
although he has never sought nor desired public preferment, he has contributed
in many ways to the development and improvement of the town, county and state.
Socially he holds membership in the Minneapolis, Minikahda, Lafayette and
Lincoln clubs.