Florence harding biography

Florence Harding () was an American first lady () and the wife of Warren G. Harding, 29th president of the United States. Energetic, strong-willed and popular, she was an important influence on her husband’s business and political careers.

Florence Mabel Kling had a markedly different pedigree from many of the women who preceded her in the White House.

The first child of self-made entrepreneur Amos Kling in Marion, Ohio, she acquired such business skills as accounting and bookkeeping while helping in her father’s hardware store. Athletic and strong, she was adept at handling horses, and rode hers to the family’s outlying properties to collect rent. Florence also learned more traditional household skills, and was considered talented enough at piano to attend the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music as a teenager.

Florence eloped at age 19 with boyfriend Henry Atherton DeWolfe, with whom she had her only child.

After their separation, she gave custody of her young son to her father and florence harding biography1 LOMI