The following pages are from the 1892 book "Portrait and Biographical Record of Lee County, Illinois...". The pages are included on this website because they contain the following biography of Isaac Harden, who I believe is the father of Maria Harden, wife of my ancestor Peter Miller of Somerset County PA:
"His father, George Harden, was also a native of Pennsylvania, and he in turn was a son of Isaac Harden, of Pennsylvania birth, whose father David Harden, is thought to have been born in England, but the most of his life was passed in this country, his death occurring in the Keystone State when he was an old man. His son Isaac grew up in the State of his nativity, and was variously engaged as a farmer, miner of coal, and a distiller, running a distillery in the early days of the settlement of Somerset County, of which he was a pioneer. He died there in Northampton Township, at the age of eighty-one, falling dead on the road from the effects of a stroke of paralysis. He was a man whose many good traits made him greatly respected by his neighbors and others. He was twice married. His first marriage was with a Miss Neymeyer, a Pennsylvania lady, of English descent. She died in the prime of life when her son George, the father of our subject, was a young man. Isaac Harden married for his second wife Catherine Beal, of Somerset County, and she died there at the age of sixty years and more, a few years after the death of her husband.
George Harden was one of a family of four sons and three daughters born to his mother.
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