Nathan Harden was born in Knox Co., Ohio, of Pennsylvania parentage, March 1, 1831. He removed to Indiana in an early day and from there to Iowa in 1869. IN 1884 he came to Kansas and located on government land in Bluff Creek Valley, Clark County, being one of the first settlers of that section of Kansas. He was active and influential in Clark County and in 1895 removed to Oklahoma, locating in Shawnee, where he died the same year. He was a Republican and member of the Christian Church. He was married three times, his first wife being Miss Emeretta Arnold, to whom nine children wer born, as follows: Mary Ella, deceased; Jenie, deceased, ; Lusetta, deceased; Charles E, the subject of this sketch; Sue M. married F. E. Lewis, farmer, Clark County, Sarah Belle, marriedxxx Sittert, merchant, Cleveland, Ohio, Henry L., farmer, Comanche County, Kansas, and a daughter who died in infancy. The wife and mother of these children died December 19, 1873 and two years later the father married Ella Hammond, who died in 1877, no children being born to this union. In 1878 he married Viola J. Mc Donald and one childre was born to this union, Nathan. (History of Clark Co., Kansas)