Abstract of <title>Saint Peters Parish, Washington, North Carolina : a record of the century, 1822-1922 Anderson, Heather Images scanned by Digital Collections, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University. Text encoded by Gretchen Gueguen Digital Collections, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University. Greenville, North Carolina 2010

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Abstract of Saint Peters Parish, Washington, North Carolina : a record of the century, 1822-1922 Saint Peters Parish, Washington, North Carolina : a record of the century, 1822-1922 Harding, Edmund Hoyt BX5980.W3 H37 1922 1922

This is an account of the first hundred years of Saint Peters Parish, Washington, North Carolina, beginning with its formation in 1822. It includes information about some families in Washington and Beaufort County

Author Biography

Edmund Hoyt Harding was born July 10, 1890, in Washington, North Carolina, to Reverend Nathaniel Harding and Marina Brickell Hoyt. Harding received his education in the public schools of Washington and at the Trinity School in Chocowinity, where he graduated in 1907. After graduation, he started his career in sales, but displayed talents as a humorist and orator. By 1940, he devoted his career to public speaking and had given speeches in all fifty states, Canada, and Mexico. Governor R. Gregg Cherry gave him the title "Ambassador of Goodwill", a title that every subsequent governor bestowed upon him. In 1955, Harding began a movement to help restore Bath, North Carolina. He served as president of the Beaufort County Historical Society and as chairman of the Historic Bath Commission, and produced the pageant Queen Anne's Bell. Harding was also a member of the Masons, Shriners, Washington Chamber of Commerce, the local Rotary Club, and the North Carolina Society for the Preservation of Antiquities. He served as organist at St. Peter's Church for almost forty years.

In 1914, Harding married Katherine Bragaw also of Washington. Their marriage produced two daughters, Katherine Blount and Rena Hoyt. After the death of his first wife, he remarried on July 5, 1969, to Nina Carolyn Whitley of Aurora. Harding died on September 19, 1970, in Georgia while returning from a speaking engagement. He is buried in Washington's Oakdale Cemetery.

Sources:

Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, Vol. 3, 1991