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Robert Harding February 12, 1852 - 
Green-Boyle County KyArchives Biography

Author: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume V, 4th Ed.

ROBERT HARDING was born February 12, 1852, in Green County, Ky., and is a son 
of Aaron and Margaret (Campbell) Harding, who had born to them five
children: Mattie, John, Samuel, Sallie and Robert. (See sketch of Samuel 
Harding above).  Robert Harding lived in Greensburg until ten years old, and 
was raised partly in Washington, D. C., while his father was in Congress. He 
graduated in the class of 1873 from Centre College, and in 1874 began the 
study of law in Danville, with his brother. In the same year he was licensed 
to practice. In 1878 he was elected county attorney, and re-elected in 1882. 
He was married October 22, 1879, to Maggie B. Robinson, daughter of Richard M. 
and Margaret (Hoskins) Robinson. Mr. Robinson was a native of Fayette and his 
wife of Garrard County. Richard M. Robinson died at the age of fifty-one. Camp 
Dick Robinson, the first Union camp south of the Ohio River, was located on 
his beautiful farm here Gen. Nelson was buried. Mr. Hardin and wife are 
members of the Baptist Church. In alluding to the nuptials of Mr. and Mrs. 
Harding a local paper contained an elaborate notice from which the following 
is extracted: "Both of the contracting parties have been well and favorably 
known in this community since their earliest youth, and both have been general 
favorites in society. The bride is the youngest daughter of Mrs. M. P. 
Robinson, widow of the late Richard Robinson, for whom Camp Dick Robinson took 
its name. She is well known throughout central Kentucky as one of the most 
beautiful young ladies of the State, and an acknowledged belle. Her cultured 
mind, and lovely and amiable disposition, her bewitching and gentle manners 
always caused her to be admired and beloved by all who knew her. The groom, 
Mr. Robert Harding, is the youngest son of the late Aaron Harding, and now 
holds the office of county attorney for Boyle County. He is a young lawyer of 
ability and rare promise.  Trinity Church was elaborately and beautifully 
decorated with rare and exquisite natural flowers and evergreens. An hour 
before the appointed time for the ceremony to take place, the church was 
filled to overflowing, aisles, lobby, door and windows being filled with eager 
spectators. The following young ladies and gentlemen were the attendants: Miss 
Sallie Harding and Mr. Richard Dunlap; Miss Sallie Brown, of Nicholasville, 
and Wm. Robinson; Miss Annie Shelby and Robert Evans; Miss Annie Lee and Jas. 
Gentry. Immediately after the ceremony the bridal party and a large number of 
invited guests repaired to "Camp Dick," the home of the bride, where they were 
hospitably and elegantly entertained."


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