Harden family

Edward Harden (1784-1849), was a planter and politician in antebellum Georgia. He managed a rice plantation near Savannah called Silk Hope. He moved to Athens, Georgia, where he conducted a law school after 1830. During his career he served as counsel for the Cherokee Indians, U.S. marshal in Georgia, 1843, and collector of the port of Savannah, 1844. Mary Ann Elizabeth (Randolph) Harden (1794-1874) was his second wife. Their son, Edward Randolph Harden (1815-1884), attended the University of Georgia, Athens, 1829-1830 and later was a telegraph operator and lawyer in the Athens area along with their daughter, Mary Elizabeth Greenhill Harden (1811-1887).