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[[File:General William Giles Harding.jpg|right|thumb|upright|Portrait of William Giles Harding]]
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'''William Giles Harding''' (1808–1886) was an [[United States|American]] heir, [[Plantations in the American South|Southern planter]], horse breeder and [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] Brigadier General.<ref name="encyclopedia">Ridley Wills, II, [http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=600 William Giles Harding], ''The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture'', December 25, 2009</ref><ref name="hardingsjacksons">[http://bellemeadeplantation.com/harding-jackson/ Belle Meade Plantation: The Hardings & Jacksons]</ref><ref name="specialcollections">[http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/hardingwg.shtml Vanderbilt University Special Collections: William Giles Harding Collection: 1827-1872]</ref><ref name="beisel">Perky Beisel, Rob DeHart, ''Middle Tennessee Horse Breeding'', Arcadia Publishing, 2007, pp. 14-15 [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6q0QPE7LH90C&pg=PA12&dq=%22Clover+Bottom+Mansion%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=XcBbUcDZJMmm0QWB4oCwDQ&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22Clover%20Bottom%20Mansion%22&f=false]</ref><ref name="unc">[http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/h/Harding_and_Jackson_Family.html UNC Harding and Jackson Family Papers, 1819-1911.]</ref><ref name="zimmerman">Mark Zimmerman, ''Guide To Civil War Nashville Nashville'', The Battle of Nashville Preservation Society, 2004, p. 68</ref>
'''William Giles Harding''' (1808–1886) was an [[United States|American]] heir, [[Plantations in the American South|Southern planter]], horse breeder and [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] Brigadier General.<ref name="encyclopedia">Ridley Wills, II, [http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=600 William Giles Harding], ''The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture'', December 25, 2009</ref><ref name="hardingsjacksons">[http://bellemeadeplantation.com/harding-jackson/ Belle Meade Plantation: The Hardings & Jacksons]</ref><ref name="specialcollections">[http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/hardingwg.shtml Vanderbilt University Special Collections: William Giles Harding Collection: 1827-1872]</ref><ref name="beisel">Perky Beisel, Rob DeHart, ''Middle Tennessee Horse Breeding'', Arcadia Publishing, 2007, pp. 14-15 [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6q0QPE7LH90C&pg=PA12&dq=%22Clover+Bottom+Mansion%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=XcBbUcDZJMmm0QWB4oCwDQ&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22Clover%20Bottom%20Mansion%22&f=false]</ref><ref name="unc">[http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/h/Harding_and_Jackson_Family.html UNC Harding and Jackson Family Papers, 1819-1911.]</ref><ref name="zimmerman">Mark Zimmerman, ''Guide To Civil War Nashville Nashville'', The Battle of Nashville Preservation Society, 2004, p. 68</ref>


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===Career===
===Career===
He first moved to his father's Pennington bend property, River Farm, between the [[Stones River|Stones]] and [[Cumberland River|Cumberland rivers]] in Nashville.<ref name="hardingsjacksons"/><ref name="specialcollections"/> He inherited the Belle Meade Plantation at the age of thirty-one, in 1839.<ref name="encyclopedia"/><ref name="hardingsjacksons"/><ref name="specialcollections"/><ref name="beisel"/> At the age of forty-five, he began construction of a larger 'Greek revival style' mansion in 1853-54 on the [[Belle Meade Plantation]] which would become the now famous [[Belle Meade Mansion]], listed in the National Registry of Historical Places (NRHP #69000177, inducted 30 December 1969).<ref name="encyclopedia"/><ref name="beisel"/><ref name="zimmerman"/> Beyond breeding thoroughbreds and [[cashmere goat]]s, he also engaged in horseracing.<ref name="encyclopedia"/><ref name="specialcollections"/> I 1856, he was President of the [[The Jockey Club|Nashville Jockey Club]].<ref name="beisel"/> He owned over 100 slaves.<ref name="encyclopedia"/>
He first moved to his father's Pennington bend property, River Farm, between the [[Stones River|Stones]] and [[Cumberland River|Cumberland rivers]] in Nashville.<ref name="hardingsjacksons"/><ref name="specialcollections"/> He inherited the Belle Meade Plantation at the age of thirty-one, in 1839.<ref name="encyclopedia"/><ref name="hardingsjacksons"/><ref name="specialcollections"/><ref name="beisel"/> At the age of forty-five, from 1853 to 1854, he began construction of a larger [[Greek Revival architecture|Greek Revival]] mansion on the [[Belle Meade Plantation]] which would become known as the Belle Meade Mansion (listed on the [[National Register of Historical Places]] since December 30, 1969.<ref name="encyclopedia"/><ref name="beisel"/><ref name="zimmerman"/> Beyond breeding thoroughbreds and [[cashmere goat]]s, he also engaged in horseracing.<ref name="encyclopedia"/><ref name="specialcollections"/> In 1856, he served as the President of the [[The Jockey Club|Nashville Jockey Club]].<ref name="beisel"/> He owned over a hundred slaves.<ref name="encyclopedia"/>


He was a staunch proponent of the [[Confederate States of America]] and donated US$500,000 to the [[Confederate States Army]] to support the [[Lost Cause of the Confederacy|cause]].<ref name="hardingsjacksons"/><ref name="zimmerman"/> Prior to the [[American Civil War]] of 1861-1865, he attained the rank of Brigadier General in the Tennessee State Militia.<ref name="encyclopedia"/> At the benning of the war, he headed the Military and Financial Board of Tennessee at the beginning of the Civil War, until his arrest by Union authorities in 1862.<ref name="encyclopedia"/> He was imprisoned by Federal authorities in [[Fort Mackinac]] on [[Mackinac Island]] in [[Michigan]] for six months.<ref name="encyclopedia"/><ref name="specialcollections"/><ref name="unc"/><ref name="zimmerman"/>
He was a staunch proponent of the [[Confederate States of America]] and donated US$500,000 to the [[Confederate States Army]] to support the [[Lost Cause of the Confederacy|cause]].<ref name="hardingsjacksons"/><ref name="zimmerman"/> Prior to the [[American Civil War]] of 1861-1865, he attained the rank of Brigadier General in the Tennessee State Militia.<ref name="encyclopedia"/> At the benning of the war, he headed the Military and Financial Board of Tennessee at the beginning of the Civil War, until his arrest by Union authorities in 1862.<ref name="encyclopedia"/> He was imprisoned by Federal authorities in [[Fort Mackinac]] on [[Mackinac Island]] in [[Michigan]] for six months.<ref name="encyclopedia"/><ref name="specialcollections"/><ref name="unc"/><ref name="zimmerman"/>
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He married Mary Selena McNairy, and they had a son, [[John Harding II]].<ref name="encyclopedia"/><ref name="hardingsjacksons"/> She died in 1837.<ref name="encyclopedia"/><ref name="hardingsjacksons"/> He remarried to Elizabeth Irwin McGavock, daughter of [[Randal McGavock]] (1766-1843), who had served as Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee from 1824 to 1825 and owned the [[Carnton]] plantation in [[Franklin, Tennessee]].<ref name="encyclopedia"/><ref name="hardingsjacksons"/><ref name="specialcollections"/><ref>[http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nashvillearchives/mayors.html Friends of Metropolitan Archives of Nashville and Davidson County, TN]</ref> They had two daughters, Selene and Mary Elizabeth.<ref name="encyclopedia"/><ref name="hardingsjacksons"/>
He married Mary Selena McNairy, and they had a son, [[John Harding II]].<ref name="encyclopedia"/><ref name="hardingsjacksons"/> She died in 1837.<ref name="encyclopedia"/><ref name="hardingsjacksons"/> He remarried to Elizabeth Irwin McGavock, daughter of [[Randal McGavock]] (1766-1843), who had served as Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee from 1824 to 1825 and owned the [[Carnton]] plantation in [[Franklin, Tennessee]].<ref name="encyclopedia"/><ref name="hardingsjacksons"/><ref name="specialcollections"/><ref>[http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nashvillearchives/mayors.html Friends of Metropolitan Archives of Nashville and Davidson County, TN]</ref> They had two daughters, Selene and Mary Elizabeth.<ref name="encyclopedia"/><ref name="hardingsjacksons"/>


After the Civil War, daughter Selene Harding married Confederate States Army General [[William Hicks Jackson]], commonly known as General "Red" Jackson, the son of Dr. Alexander Jackson and Mary W. Hurt Jackson.<ref name="hardingsjacksons"/><ref>''Tennessee State Library and Archives, the ''Papers of William Hicks Jackson (1835-1903)''</ref> His brother was [[Howell Edmunds Jackson]], who served as [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] from 1881 to 1886 and was appointed a Justice of the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] from 1893 to 1895. After the death of Howell's first wife Sophia Malloy in 1873, he married General Harding's youngest daughter, Mary Elizabeth Harding.
After the Civil War, his daughter Selene Harding married Confederate States Army General [[William Hicks Jackson]], commonly known as General "Red" Jackson, the son of Dr. Alexander Jackson and Mary W. Hurt Jackson.<ref name="hardingsjacksons"/><ref>''Tennessee State Library and Archives, the ''Papers of William Hicks Jackson (1835-1903)''</ref> His brother was [[Howell Edmunds Jackson]], who served as [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] from 1881 to 1886 and was appointed a Justice of the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] from 1893 to 1895. After the death of Howell's first wife Sophia Malloy in 1873, he married General Harding's youngest daughter, Mary Elizabeth Harding.


He died in 1886.<ref name="encyclopedia"/> His obituary in the ''[[Chattanooga Times Free Press]]'' called him 'a monarch in his own domain'.<ref name="encyclopedia"/> He is buried in the family tomb at the Belle Meade Plantation.
He died in 1886.<ref name="encyclopedia"/> His obituary in the ''[[Chattanooga Times Free Press]]'' called him 'a monarch in his own domain'.<ref name="encyclopedia"/> He is buried in the family tomb at the Belle Meade Plantation.

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William Giles Harding
File:General William Giles Harding.jpg
Portrait of William Giles Harding
Born1808
Nashville, Tennessee
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Nashville
OccupationPlanter
Spouse(s)Mary Selena McNairy
Elizabeth Irwin McGavock
ChildrenJohn Harding II
Selene Harding
Mary Elizabeth Harding
ParentJohn Harding
RelativesWilliam Hicks Jackson (son-in-law)

William Giles Harding (1808–1886) was an American heir, Southern planter, horse breeder and Confederate Brigadier General.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Biography

Early life

He was born in 1808 near Nashville, Tennessee to John Harding (1777-1865), a Virginian, who one year earlier (1807) purchased 250 acres (1.0 km2) near Richland Creek known as "McSpadden's Bend".[1][2][4] He was educated at the old University of Nashville, the Partridge's American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy in Middletown, Connecticut, and he studied Law in Litchfield, Connecticut.[1][2][3]

Career

He first moved to his father's Pennington bend property, River Farm, between the Stones and Cumberland rivers in Nashville.[2][3] He inherited the Belle Meade Plantation at the age of thirty-one, in 1839.[1][2][3][4] At the age of forty-five, from 1853 to 1854, he began construction of a larger Greek Revival mansion on the Belle Meade Plantation which would become known as the Belle Meade Mansion (listed on the National Register of Historical Places since December 30, 1969.[1][4][6] Beyond breeding thoroughbreds and cashmere goats, he also engaged in horseracing.[1][3] In 1856, he served as the President of the Nashville Jockey Club.[4] He owned over a hundred slaves.[1]

He was a staunch proponent of the Confederate States of America and donated US$500,000 to the Confederate States Army to support the cause.[2][6] Prior to the American Civil War of 1861-1865, he attained the rank of Brigadier General in the Tennessee State Militia.[1] At the benning of the war, he headed the Military and Financial Board of Tennessee at the beginning of the Civil War, until his arrest by Union authorities in 1862.[1] He was imprisoned by Federal authorities in Fort Mackinac on Mackinac Island in Michigan for six months.[1][3][5][6]

After the Civil War, his son-in-law William Hicks Jackson and his daughter Selene moved to Belle Meade Plantation to co-manage the farm with him.[1][2] They expanded the horse farm to an estimated 5,400 acres (22 km2). The Harding-Jackson families became world renowned thoroughbred horse breeders, later purchasing a top stallion named Iroquois (1878–1899), the first American horse to win the prestigious English Epsom Derby in 1881.

Personal life

He married Mary Selena McNairy, and they had a son, John Harding II.[1][2] She died in 1837.[1][2] He remarried to Elizabeth Irwin McGavock, daughter of Randal McGavock (1766-1843), who had served as Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee from 1824 to 1825 and owned the Carnton plantation in Franklin, Tennessee.[1][2][3][7] They had two daughters, Selene and Mary Elizabeth.[1][2]

After the Civil War, his daughter Selene Harding married Confederate States Army General William Hicks Jackson, commonly known as General "Red" Jackson, the son of Dr. Alexander Jackson and Mary W. Hurt Jackson.[2][8] His brother was Howell Edmunds Jackson, who served as United States Senator from 1881 to 1886 and was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1893 to 1895. After the death of Howell's first wife Sophia Malloy in 1873, he married General Harding's youngest daughter, Mary Elizabeth Harding.

He died in 1886.[1] His obituary in the Chattanooga Times Free Press called him 'a monarch in his own domain'.[1] He is buried in the family tomb at the Belle Meade Plantation.

Heirs to the estate

General Harding died in 1886 leaving the Belle Meade Estate in equal shares to :

  • John Harding II.[9] His first wife, Sophia W. Merritt, whom he married in 1853, died in 1855.[9] He married his second wife, Margaret A. L. Owen, in December 1856.[9]
  • Howell Edmunds Jackson (8 April 1832 - 8 August 1895) and wife, Mary Elizabeth Harding, General Harding's youngest daughter. They lived in West Meade, which they built in 1886 after he gave them a track of 2,600 acres.[10]
  • General "Red" Jackson (1835-1903) and his wife, Selene Harding.[2] They had a son named William Harding Jackson, Sr. (1874–1903) who later married Anne (Davis) Richardson (1897–1950). They also had a daughter named Selene Harding Jackson (1876–1913) who later married William Robert Elliston, and took the name 'Selene Elliston'. Their grandson by William Harding Jackson, Sr., William Harding Jackson (1901–1971), later served as the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from October 7, 1950 to August 3, 1950 under President Harry S. Truman and as U.S. National Security Advisor to President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956. He inherited the estate with his aunt Selene Elliston when he was two years old. James B. Richardson, his grandfather, was named Executor of the Belle Meade Estate, and sold the estate.[2] It remained a private residence until 1953, when it was sold to the state of Tennessee.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Ridley Wills, II, William Giles Harding, The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, December 25, 2009
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Belle Meade Plantation: The Hardings & Jacksons
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Vanderbilt University Special Collections: William Giles Harding Collection: 1827-1872
  4. ^ a b c d e Perky Beisel, Rob DeHart, Middle Tennessee Horse Breeding, Arcadia Publishing, 2007, pp. 14-15 [1]
  5. ^ a b UNC Harding and Jackson Family Papers, 1819-1911.
  6. ^ a b c d e Mark Zimmerman, Guide To Civil War Nashville Nashville, The Battle of Nashville Preservation Society, 2004, p. 68
  7. ^ Friends of Metropolitan Archives of Nashville and Davidson County, TN
  8. ^ Tennessee State Library and Archives, the Papers of William Hicks Jackson (1835-1903)
  9. ^ a b c Tennessee Portrait Project: John Harding II
  10. ^ Battle of Nashville Preservation Society

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