Show UINTAH BASIN PIONEER PIONE ERDIES DIES AT WICHITA KANS KA NS word readied reached roosevelt last week of the death in wichita on july of 0 henry J harding one of the original oil ginal pion pioneers fers of roosevelt mr air was also one of 0 the pioneers of wichita having come to that city from massachusetts in ili isil 1877 ile he was a civil engineer and was city engineer of wichita tor ter two beims ile he had been making his home with his daughter mrs C C whitaker he is survived survive il by his daug daughter eliter and a son sidney T harding who is professor of hydraulic eng engineering in inthe the university of california at berkely the fo following lowing year after settling at wichita he returned to massachusetts chu where he married miss alice twitchell returning with his h is bride lie ile then 11 lived ved until 1891 in fit wichita he moved to tyler texas ile he returned to wichita in 1899 later hier in fit 1906 lie he came to roosevelt when the town was be ing organized organised and settled ile he was wag interested in the roosevelt mercantile company and was a director and one of the oil ginal ors of 0 the dry gulch irrigation com company 1 re he was one of the original or i homesteaders here and it wag front him that the harding lateral lateral of the dry gulch sy system oystein stein derived its name mr air If arding was very much interested te ilin in the building up of this section and ald retained his interests for many years after having left to live with his son in CalEo irnia ile he made frequent trips back to visit with friends heie and to look after his interests ile he will be rement bend by tle elie old timers who were assoil atod with him and alid the many anany who came came it contact with him in the various enterprises mr air biard ing was 80 years of ageal the tim of his death 11 interment was made at wichita 1 1 |