A curmudgeonly Fortean. (Which is not a redundancy.) And more on the complicated relationship between Forteanism and the early history of organized skepticism.
Be warned, this one is long and involved.
Thomas Swann Harding was born 14 May 1890 in Wyoming, Delaware, the son of Thomas and Mary Harding, both of whom had been raised in Maryland. In 1900, when Thomas was about 10, they were living in Maryland again—Prince George county—where the elder Thomas was a salesman. The Hardings had been married around 1886, when Thomas was in his mid-twenties and Mary in her early-twenties. Thomas the younger had recently been joined by a sister, Margaret, born in Maryland in 1900. Also living in the Harding house at the time of the 1900 census was Anna B. Wilson, Thomas’s sister-in-law. Her marital status was not given, but nor was the age of her first marriage, suggesting this may have been Mary’s sister. Anna was a school teacher. The family was renting its home.
Be warned, this one is long and involved.
Thomas Swann Harding was born 14 May 1890 in Wyoming, Delaware, the son of Thomas and Mary Harding, both of whom had been raised in Maryland. In 1900, when Thomas was about 10, they were living in Maryland again—Prince George county—where the elder Thomas was a salesman. The Hardings had been married around 1886, when Thomas was in his mid-twenties and Mary in her early-twenties. Thomas the younger had recently been joined by a sister, Margaret, born in Maryland in 1900. Also living in the Harding house at the time of the 1900 census was Anna B. Wilson, Thomas’s sister-in-law. Her marital status was not given, but nor was the age of her first marriage, suggesting this may have been Mary’s sister. Anna was a school teacher. The family was renting its home.