Warren G. Harding
Eugene Marshall "Pete" DeWolfe
He was born September 22, 1880. He died January 1, 1915 of advanced tuberculosis. Marshall DeWolfe was the son of a young teenage, Florence Kling, and a neighborhood boy, Henry "Petey" DeWolfe. Some say the couple eloped but no record of marriage has been found. Florence lived with DeWolfe while she was pregnant and for a time after Marshall was born, but the father was usually drunk and often absent. She was forced to give up her son by her abusive father. She did it, and apparently never looked back. Marshall followed in his father's footsteps, drinking and gambling and running up debts, many of which were paid by the future president and first lady, Warren and Florence Harding. He contracted tuberculosis and went to Colorado to a "better" climate where he married Esther Neely. They had two children. The First Lady's son, Eugene Marshall DeWolfe, died of alcoholism and tuberculosis far from his mother and the glamour of the White House.
Elizabeth Ann (Ann) Christian Blaesing, also called Elizabeth Ann Harding, and Emma Eloise Britton (mistakenly entered on her birth certificate by the attending physician)
She was born October 22, 1919, at this writing she is still living. Elizabeth was the illegitimate offspring of Warren G. Harding's affair with Nan Britton, thirty years his junior. As president, Harding arranged for secret service agents to hand deliver child support payments, but he refused to meet his daughter. When Harding's estate refused to continuing support for the child, her mother, Nan Britton wrote a best-selling book called The President's Daughter. Royalties were used to establish the Elizabeth Ann League, which helped girls "in trouble." Though many tried to discredit Nan Britton, their investigations seemed only to confirm her story. She applied at Lake Forest College, giving her father's name as Warren G. Harding. Her educational career was interrupted by marriage to Henry Blaesing. They moved to California, where she bore three sons and lived quietly and privately. Refusing all interviews, she now lives in privacy near Mt. Hood, in Oregon.
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