George Tryon Harding
In 1869, having grown tired of teaching, he began training as a physician, buying a set of second-hand medical books and accompanying the local doctor on his rounds.[6] When his son won the Republican Party's nomination at the 1920 presidential election, Harding received a surge of interest that lasted for several months.Dr. Harding gave interviews in which he incorrectly boasted that he would be the first man to see his son elected president,[7] and also proclaimed that he had "a few scores to settle."Reporters eventually tired of his arrogant manner and rambling anecdotes, although he re-entered the limelight after the president's death in office in 1923.They finally eloped just before Harding was due to ship off to Virginia, marrying in Galion, Ohio, at the home of the local Methodist minister.[5] Six of the children, Warren, Charity, Mary, Daisy, George Tryon Harding II, and Caroline lived to adulthood.President Harding had a reasonably close relationship with his father, especially in his youth, and was grateful to him for providing a college education and teaching him the basics of the newspaper business.