Stephen Gardner (b. 1818)

GARDNER, NORTHROP, HATHWAY

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 6/28/2005 at 23:31:53

Gardner, Stephen, farmer, Section 23; PO Hawk Eye; owns 210 acres of land; was born Chautauqua Co., New York in 1818. Married Mary Northrop in 1840; married again to Mary Hathway in 1872; have four children --- Calista, Emma, Ida and Forrest. Mr. Gardner came to Fayette Co. in 1868; and has been Township Treasurer six years and has held several other town offices. Politically Mr. Gardner belonged to the Liberty party, and then Free Soil and Republican; he is also a Spiritualist.

Page 659, "1878 History of Fayette County, Iowa"
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