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Harding, William White

journalist, inventor, manufacturer, was born Nov. 1, 1830, in Philadelphia. From 1863 till 1878 he manufactured paper at the Inquirer Paper mills, Manayunk, near Philadelphia, where he introduced many new systems and inventions. He died May 15, 1889, in Philadelphia, Pa.

HARDY, ALEXANDER MERRILL, journalist, lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 16, 1847, in Canada. In 1869 he went to New Orleans, where he was engaged in newspaper work until 1873, when he located in Natchez, Miss., where he conducted a republican newspaper until 1877. In 1881 he was assigned to duty as clerk to the superintendent of construction of the government building at Paducah, Ky.; and in 1884 located at Washington, Daviess county, Ind., where he has since resided. He was elected to the fiftyfourth congress as a republican.