Vachel Harding and Ann Le Moyne

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Husband Vachel Harding ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1828 - Maryland 1
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           Died: Abt 1902
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         Father: Joseph Harding (      -1874) 1
         Mother: Sophia Young (      -1845) 1

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       Marriage: 15 Oct 1855 - Washington, Washington Co, PA 1

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Wife Ann Le Moyne ^{1 2}

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         Father: Dr. Francis Julius Le Moyne (1798-1879) 3 4
         Mother: Madeleine Romaine Bureau (      -1873) 4

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Children

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1 M Charles V. Harding ^{2 5}

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           Born: 1856 - Washington, Washington Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Belle Galbraith (      -1881) 2 6
           Marr: 1878 2

         Spouse: A. Virginia Hupp (      -      ) 2

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2 F Madeline Sophia Harding ¹

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3 F Annie Harding ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Vachel Harding

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He received but a limited educa­tion at the subscription schools. At the age of fifteen he commenced clerking in a store at Hyattstown, Maryland, and as he was then learning the trade he received no salary for his services while there. At the age of eighteen years he removed to Uniontown, Pennsylvania, where he remained clerking in a dry-goods store for five years, or until 1851, when he came to Washington, Pennsylvania, and clerked there for a short time for William Mills, an old-estab­lished dry-goods merchant of the place. After­ward he went into business in a partnership; then for a time carried on business alone, and, later, was associated with James Brown in the clothing business, at the same time carrying on his dry-goods department. In 1864 he gave up the dry-goods business, and later he carried on a music business in Wheeling, West Virginia (but did not move from Washington), which after four years he sold to Adams & Lucas. After that he purchased a coal property, and was engaged in that business several years. In 1888 he retired from active life, and enjoyed the fruits of his industry at his home on Maiden street, Washington, where he has resided beginning in 1861.
Politically he was a Republican, and held several offices of trust; he was a trustee of Washington and Jefferson College, and of Wash­ington Female Seminary. He was a member of the M. E. Church for forty years, and for a long period was superintendent of the Sunday-school. During the war of the Rebellion Mr. Harding sub­scribed liberally of his means to assist in filling the quota for the army, and also put in a substitute.

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 10.

2 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 850.

3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 7.

4 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 511.

5 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 10, 1478.

6 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1478.