PRESIDENT WARREN G. HARDING - CHECK ENDORSED 05/03/1893 - HFSID 253895
Sale Price $795.00
Reg. $950.00
WARREN G. HARDING
Warren G. Harding endorses a check for payment for a printing job for
the County.
Partly Printed Check endorsed: "W.G. Harding" on verso, 8½x3½.
Auditor's Office Marion County, Marion, Ohio, 1893 May 3. Signed:
"W.L. Clark" as Auditor. In full: "Pay to W.G. Harding
or order Seventy Six 25/100 Dollars out of County Fund for Electric
tickets." In 1884, 19-year-old Warren Harding and two friends purchased
"The Marion Star" for $300. In 1891, Warren, aged twenty-five, married a
local divorcée, Florence Mabel Kling De Wolfe, five years his senior. She had a
son by her former husband and a sizable fortune from her wealthy family. For the
next ten years, Harding's business prospered, principally due to Florence
Harding's keen business eye and Harding's good-natured manner. His paper became
a favorite with Ohio politicians of both parties because of his evenhanded
reporting. His employees also loved and respected him for his willingness to
share company profits with them. In his entire career, he never fired a single
employee. In 1899, Harding won the first of two terms to the Ohio State Senate,
serving as majority leader before his bid for the lieutenant governorship in
1903. After leaving office in 1905, he returned to his newspaper for five years,
venturing again into state politics in a losing bid for Governor in 1910. Bank
cut circulation and stamping, not near signature. Light folds do not touch
signature. Fine condition.
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