. Biographical history of Massachusetts : biographies and autobiographies of the leading men in the state. Boston, andthey made their home in that city. Six children were born of thismarriage: Ruth, January 15, 1878; Charles L., February 20, 1879;Josiah Robinson, August 30, 1880; Edgar, Jr., August 2, 1883;Priscilla, August 31, 1885; and Marston Harding, March 31, 1891. Their winter home was in Boston and their summer residence abeautiful estate at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, overlooking theocean and harbor, where Mr. Harding occupied his vacation daysin his favorite sport of yachting, in which
. Biographical history of Massachusetts : biographies and autobiographies of the leading men in the state. Boston, andthey made their home in that city. Six children were born of thismarriage: Ruth, January 15, 1878; Charles L., February 20, 1879;Josiah Robinson, August 30, 1880; Edgar, Jr., August 2, 1883;Priscilla, August 31, 1885; and Marston Harding, March 31, 1891. Their winter home was in Boston and their summer residence abeautiful estate at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, overlooking theocean and harbor, where Mr. Harding occupied his vacation daysin his favorite sport of yachting, in which all the members of hisfamily participated. His yacht club affiliation was with both theEastern and Beverly clubs, and his winter social intercourses, out-side his own family circle, was in association with other membersof the Algonquin and Union clubs of Boston. His church affiliationwas with the Episcopal denomination, and with his family he was anattendant at Emmanuel Church, Boston, and was a liberal con-tributor to the charities of this denomination in all its fields of laborthroughout the LOUIS BRANCH HARDING LOUIS BRANCH HARDING was born November 26, 1856,in Winooski Falls, Vermont, and died suddenly in Washing-ton, District of Columbia, January 11,1917. The first of thefamily in America was Richard Harding, who emigrated fromEngland in August, 1623, with Captain Robert Gorges, and set-tled in Braintree, Massachusetts. The surname Harding is de-rived from the very ancient name Hardin which was in use at anearly period in Germany, Scandinavia and Britain. Several menbearing this name are mentioned in the Domesday Book (1086). Mr. Hardings father, who was born in 1816 and died in 1889, wasa woolen manufacturer. His mothers maiden name was LucyKimball Branch. He ? was the grandson of Lewis Harding,born 1786, died 1842, and Irene (Hartshorn) Harding, and ofMoses Branch and Sybil (Kimball) Branch. The Branch familytraces its ancestry to Peter Branch, of Holden, county
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