GARDNER, Charles Fitch 1843-1922
GARDNER, DANFORTH
Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 3/10/2011 at 21:59:43
C. F. Gardner, Well-
Known Nurseryman,
Is Dead at OsageOSAGE, IOWA - July 12 - The death of Capt. C. F. Gardner removed one of the most widely known horticulturists and orchardists in the county.
He was born in Otsego County, New York in 1842 and came to Iowa when 14. At 17 he enlisted in Company A. Eighteenth Iowa Infantry and saw three years of active service in the Civil War. He served as councilman, justice of the peace and member of the library board, and was active in the state horticultural societies of Minnesota and Iowa.
For more than 50 years he had devoted himself to his nursery business, shipping his products to every civilized country in the world. Since 1889 he had worked to perfect an everbearing strawberry and had succeeded in promoting several varieties. His work with plums had been just as successful and there are now many new and wonderful varieties in the nursery that will soon be ready for the market. Mr. Gardner was the first nurseryman in the country to propagate the evergreen tree from seeds.
He is survived by his widow and two sons, Clark and William, who have been associated with him in the business for many years, and by one daughter, Mrs. Arthur Danforth, Raymond, S. D.
[Waterloo Courier, Wednesday, July 12, 1922]
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NOTES:
His full name is Charles Fitch Gardner, born to Nathaniel Clark Gardner and Carolina Gregory Gardner, October 11, 1843. The obituary (above) may have the wrong birth date.
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Photo below is from MITCHELL COUNTY HISTORY, 1989.
Link to story about his nursery
Mitchell Obituaries maintained by Sharyl Ferrall.
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