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CONNECTION FOUND BETWEEN COLLEGE AND PRESIDENTELECT HARDING

January 1921
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CONNECTION FOUND BETWEEN COLLEGE AND PRESIDENTELECT HARDING
January 1921

According to a newspaper story delving into the geneology of president-elect Harding, a distant relationship has been discovered between the White House and Dartmouth. One of Warren G. Harding's forefathers, a Rev. Alpheus Harding, born at Medway, Mass., in 1780 graduated from Dartmouth with the class of 1805. Following his graduation he taught the academy at New Salem for two years and was then ordained pastor of the Congregational Church there in 1807, serving the church for 40 years. He was twice elected to the