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Show ANCIENT BIBLE SHOWS LINEAGE OF HARDING I FAST HAMl'TuN, Conn , Aug J 1 lA bible now owned by A. W. Sexton Io' this town, and which once was the Amos Clark family bible, shows by Its birth, marriage and death record pages that Si nator Warren 1 i Harding, jthe Republican presidential nominee, I la a direct descendant of Nathan Harding, born Junuuiy )0, 17SU, in the Harding home on the old Harding road In Middle Efaddam, conn. Nathan Harding married Ph Helta Clark in Middle Haddam on August 111, 180:'. They had 12 children of whom one was Abner Clark Harding. born Februarj 10. i807. Abner beldame be-ldame a physician, served in the Civil war, and attained the rank of general. gen-eral. Afterward he assisted in the building of the Chicago, liurllngton ifc Qulncy railroad. A son. George, settled set-tled in Ohio after marrying a Miss Warren. His son Is the father of! Senator Warren Q. Harding |