Warren G. Harding, President (1865-1923)Harding was born November 2, 1865, in Corsica (now Bloomington Grove), Ohio. He was the eldest of eight children. His father, George Tryon Harding, was a farmer and a doctor. His mother, Phoebe Dickerson Harding, was a "kind and pious" woman who devoted herself to her children. As a boy Warren helped his father on the farm. In the summers he worked in a sawmill that made brooms and drove a team of horses for the Toledo and Ohio Central Railroad. His father would later say, "Warren was always willing to work hard if there was money in it." Warren would later become a printer's apprentice and clerk at the Caledonia Argus, a local newspaper. There he learned to type and gained his first experience with newspapers. In 1879, at the age of 14, Harding entered Ohio Central College in Iberia. After graduating in 1882 he began working as a school teacher. But he gave up after a quarter, calling it the hardest job he'd ever had. The following year the Hardings moved to Marion, Ohio. Harding studied law for a few months, but...