Benjamin D. Harding (1816)

Born 25 Nov 1816 in Exeter, NY

Ancestors

Husband of Emily (Williams) Harding — married 17 Jan 1847 in Livingston Co., MO

Descendants

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Biography

"In 1834 Benjamin Harding removed from Exeter to Cortlandville, and worked on the farm until 1841, and then went to Pennsylvania, and taught school most of the time in Lancaster and Lebanon Counties till March, 1844. He then went to Missouri by canal, railroad, and steamboat, and taught school in Livingston and Chariton Counties two years. In August, 1846, he went to the Indian Territory and engaged in the Indian trade, first in company with Ben Halliday, afterward for Joseph Robedoux. He began housekeeping in the spring of 1847 at Iowa Mission. In January, 1849, he removed to St. Joseph, Mo., and taught school. In April, 1852, he moved to Wathena, Kan., with a small stock of Indian goods, built a cabin, made a small farm which he afterward pre-empted, and on which he now lives. The land was then held by the Kickapoo Indians, his neighbors. Treaty made in 1854. In 1857 he was elected member of the council (senate) in the territorial legislature, and served two years. In 1861 he was elected register of deeds for Doniphan County and reelected in 1863. In 1864 he commanded Co. K, 9th Reg't Kansas State Militia, and went to Kansas City on Price's raid expedition. He is a farmer, residing at Wathena, Kan."

Sources

• No. 1875, pg 258 and 495-497 - Hollister Family of America compiled by Lafayette Wallace Case, MD 1886 - https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=5eNUAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA1