Development and Promotion. At the time of his death, he also served a director of Electric Auto Light Co. of Toledo, Ohio. Military service During World War II, he entered the service as a lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve, became a Captain the U.S. Army and was discharged from the Army Air Forces as a Colonel and was decorated with the Legion of Merit. Personal life On March 30, 1929, Harding was married Constance Fox (1908–1972), a daughter of Edward Lyttleton Fox and Genevieve Morgan (née O'Brien) Fox (daughter of Judge Morgan J. O'Brien). Before they separated in 1941, they were the parents of two sons and a daughter: Dorothea Harding (1930–1997), who married writer and produce Blair Chotzinoff (1926–2005), a nephew of violinist Jascha Heifetz, in 1957. He had previously been engaged to Gloria Steinem. After having two daughters, they divorced and she married William H. Kobin. James Horace Harding (b. 1932), an aeronautical engineer who married Anne M. Weill, a daughter of Paul B. Weill, in 1957. Timothy Fox Harding (b. 1934), a writer who married Patricia Anne Nye, a daughter of Selden Spencer Nye. After they were divorced on June 28, 1943 in Nevada, Constance remarried to George L. Weissman and Harding remarried to Mary Newbold (née Reed) Dodge, the daughter of Latham Reed and former wife of Marshall J. Dodge, Jr. (grandson of Josephine Jewell Dodge), in August 1943. They lived at 435 East 52nd Street in Manhattan and in a 150-year-old farmhouse in Holmdel Township in New Jersey. A prominent philanthropist, he served as president of the New Jersey State Home for Boys in Jamesburg and a member of the board of director of the Allenwood Sanatorium. Harding died on June 30, 1967 at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, New Jersey. References External links 1906 births 1967 deaths Groton School alumni Yale University alumni People from Holmdel Township, New Jersey Recipients of the Legion of Merit