Collection is open for research.
Gift of Virginia Harding Lewis and Helene Harding Brooke, June 10, 1967 (Lib. Acc. 10324).
George A. Harding arrived in Oregon in 1857, served in the Union Army, was director of the Willamette Valley Southern Railway and operated a drugstore in Oregon City. In 1877, he married Margaret Jennie Barlow, daughter of J. L. Barlow. They had six children: Jennie Imogene (Harding Brodie), George Lee Harding, Carleton Barlow Harding, Nieta Natalie Harding, Lloyd Ordway (Ben) and Evelyn Harding. In 1915, George Lee married Helene Ferrer, who died of cancer in 1936. They had three daughters: Suzannah Harding, Helene (Harding) Rigger and Virginia (Harding) Lewis.
Contains material previously designated Mss 2000-1.
George A. Harding Family papers, Mss 2000, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
George A. Harding family photograph album, Album 158, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
Correspondence, documents, business records, genealogy, ephemera, diaries, and account books of members of the George A. Harding family; blueprints and notebooks of George Lee Harding, circa 1919-1945, regarding his work on the Smith Cove Pier B in Seattle, Washington, the Port of Tacoma, etc. Also included are an architectural drawing of the Harding Building on Main Street in Oregon City and a plat map of Palmer's Addition in Boring, Oregon; scrapbook; and photocopy journals of George A. Harding, 96 pages, 1862.
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1862 journal of George A. Harding was published in Oregon Historical Quarterly, Summer 1978, Vol. 79, No. 2, pages 172-202.