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HENRY Ford, son of Marie Litogot of Ostend when it was still part of the Netherlands, Thomas Edison, scion of the Edesons of Edam, Den Oever and Reusel-de Mierden, and US president Warren Harding sit together celebrating Independence Day at a campground in western Maryland.

Harding was a descendant of the Janszen family of Haarlem and Verkerk of Beusichem. In 1921, he was not only president of the United States, but also still the owner and publisher of The Marion Daily Star in Ohio. That’s what the gentlemen are reading.