Gardner, Simon

GARDNER, ORWIN

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Date: 11/17/2008 at 14:34:51

GARDNER, Simon; Farmer, Sec. 7, P. O. Kellogg. He was born in Cambridge, England in 1817 and located in this county in 1846. He went to Iowa Co., Wisc., thence to California, where he remained four and a half years, and then located in this county in 1856. He married Henrietta ORWIN in 1857. she was born in England, and has four children by a former husband. They are members of the M. E. Church. He is a Republican. He owns 170 acres valued at $35 per acre. ~ "The History of Jasper County" (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878), 533