Background
HARDING, Alfred was born on August 15, 1852 in Lisburn, Ireland, August 15. Son of Richard Harding and Mary Ferguson.
HARDING, Alfred was born on August 15, 1852 in Lisburn, Ireland, August 15. Son of Richard Harding and Mary Ferguson.
Came to America, 1867. Bachelor of Arts, Trinity College, Connecticut, 1879. Graduate Berkeley Division School, Connecticut, 1882.
(Doctor of Divinity, Trinity, 1902.
Doctor of Laws, George Washington, 1909).
He was elected in 1909 to succeed the Right Review Henry Yates Satterlee, the founding bishop of the Diocese of Washington (1896–1908). Harding was de facto dean of the Cathedral from 1909 until 1916.
He emigrated in 1867 to the United States, settling in Brooklyn, Kings County, New New York
He became a naturalized citizen in 1870 and spent several years a businessman. Education Marriage Ordination In 1882, he was ordained a deacon by Abram North. Littlejohn, the first Episcopal Bishop of Long Island and in 1883 he was ordained a priest again by Bishop Littlejohn.
The year of his deaconate was spent as an assistant to the Review Henry M. Nelson, Junior., rector of Trinity Church, Geneva, New New York
From 1883 to 1887, he was the assistant rector of Old Saint Paul"s Parish in Baltimore, Maryland.
He was third rector of Saint Paul"s, K Street, Washington, District of Columbia serving from 1887 until 1909 when he became the Bishop of Washington, District of Columbia This parish has given special attention to music, it being the first in the city to introduce the choral service. In 1889 he received the call to Christ Church Cathedral, Saint Louis, Missouri, but declined. Consecration The consecrator was Bishop Charles Edward Woodcock, the third Episcopal Bishop of Kentucky.
When the Harriet Lane Johnston choir school (Street Albans) opened, nine years after the National Cathedral School for Girls, Harding made Edgar Priest supervisor of music at these schools in August 1909.
His formal appointment as the Cathedral’s first organist and choirmaster came in 1911 in anticipation of the opening of Bethlehem Chapel for services the following May. Death He died on May 2, 1923 in Washington, District of Columbia
Member War Commission Protestant Episcopal Church, War-time Committee of One Hundred, General Chaplain’s Committee of Federal Council of Churches
Married Justine Butler Prindle, June 8, 1887.
