Westmoreland-Allegheny County PA Archives Biographies.....Harding, James October 26, 1823

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JAMES HARDING, a descendant of an old Revolutionary soldier and patriot and the
owner of one of Derry township’s finest farms, was born in Mifflin township,
Allegheny county, Pa., October 26, 1823, and is a son of James and Sarah (Hays)
Harding. His paternal grandfather, Thomas Harding, was born in Ireland and came
to America prior to the Revolutionary war. He served as a cavalryman in the
Continental army, was captured by the British, carried to Philadelphia and
confined in a building from which he and several other prisoners escaped by
means of a rope conveyed to them by the woman who carried in their meals. After
the war he migrated to Allegheny county, this State, and subsequently removed to
Clinton county, Ohio, where he died in 1844 at the advanced age of ninety-eight
years. Abraham Hays, maternal grandfather, was a resident of Allegheny county,
Pa., where he married Fannie Pattie, who was of French descent. James Harding,
Sr. (father) was born February 7, 1780, in Allegheny county, where he resided
until his death, which occurred October 3, 1858. He was originally a democrat
but became a whig in 1845. He was a farmer and married Sarah Hays, by whom he
had eight children, of whom two are living: James, and Margaret, who married
John Hodgson, of Pittsburg and celebrated her golden wedding in July, 1889.

   James Harding was reared on a farm and learned the trade of carpenter in
Pittsburg, which he followed in that city for ten years. In 1866 he removed to
Derry township and settled on his present farm which he had purchased in 1858.
 For the last twenty-one years he has been very successful in farming and
stock-raising. He is a republican in politics and a deacon of the Blairsville
Presbyterian church. He is genial and generous and has a beautiful and
attractive home, which lies near Blairsville and is known as the Social Hall Farm.

   On November 18, 1852, he married Louisa Hall, who was born August 7, 1829,
and is a daughter of Robert Hall, a wealthy plow manufacturer of Pittsburg and
the inventer of the first patent lever plow. Mr. and Mrs. Harding have been the
parents of six children: Martha J., born February 20, 1855; Laura B., June 24,
1858; James L., horn November 7, 1860; Robert H., May 27, 1863, and died January
6, 1879; Lawrence, born February 17, 1868, died January 13, 1879, and George H.,
born December 29, 1872, and died January 26, 1879.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co.
Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant
1890


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