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Iowa Family Group Sheet for the William Henry GARDNER Family

Submitted by: Jodi Magnuson at jodimag@earthlink.net

HUSBAND: William Henry GARDNER
Birth date: 14 December 1828
Death date: 4 August 1898
Place of death: Minneapolis, Hennepin Co, MN
Burial date:
Burial place: Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis,MN
Other Spouse:
Father: Alanson M. GARDINER (1801-1876)
Mother: Marilla Etta TRUESDELL (1808-1881)

Marriage date: 3 December 1851
Marriage place: Perry Center, Wyoming County, NY

WIFE: Lodema TAYLOR
Birth date: 23 February 1826
Birthplace: Elmira, NY
Death date: 18 October 1897
Place of death: Minneapolis, Hennepin Co, MN
Burial date:
Burial place: Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis,MN
Other Spouse:
Father: Stephen D. TAYLOR (1802-1893)
Mother: Patty BATHRICK (1805-1893)

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Herbert Brayton �H.B.� GARDNER
Sex: M
Birth date: 25 August 1854
Birthplace: Moscow, Livingston County, NY
Death date: 20 April 1940
Place of death: Port Angeles, Jefferson County, WA
Burial date:
Burial place: Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin Co, MN
Spouse's name: Sophie Griswold McLAURY
Marriage date: 21 June 1881
Marriage place: Yonkers, NY

Child No. 2: Curtis Fremont GARDNER
Sex: M
Birth date: 20 June 1856
Birthplace: Moscow, Livingston County, NY
Death date: 17 February 1904
Place of death: Ft. Collins, Larimar Co, CO
Burial date:
Burial place:
Spouse's name: Hattie J. SLEEPER
Marriage date: 6 September 1883
Marriage place: Bloomington, IL

Child No. 3: Clara Edell GARDNER
Sex: F
Birth date: 21 January 1859
Birthplace: Elmira, NY
Death date: 6 November 1880
Place of death:
Burial date:
Burial place: Walnut Grove Cemetery, Corning, Taylor Farm County, Iowa
Spouse's name:
Marriage date:
Marriage place:

Child No. 4: Will Linwood GARDNER
Sex: M
Birth date: 9 January 1861
Birthplace: Elmira, NY
Death date: 24 August 1908
Place of death: Minneapolis, Hennepin Co, MN
Burial date:
Burial place: Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis,MN
Spouse's name: Ida Emmeline MORGAN
Marriage date: 2 September 1885
Marriage place: Corning, IA

Documentation and Sources:
Gardner - August 4, 1898, William H. Gardner, aged 70 years, formerly of this city at the home of his eldest son 2522 Garfield avenue, Minneapolis, Mn.
(from a newspaper clipping, no date, handwritten note says � Grandpa Gardner. This was pasted in Ida Gardner�s diary from 1930).

Census: 1880 US census, place: Corning, Adams, Iowa -
M. H. Gardner: birth year 1829, age 51 born in NY, occupation: carpenter & farmer, married, white, parents born in NY. listed with wife Lodema, daughter, Clara E and son Wm L. (info from www.familysearch.org on 22 May 2003)

H.B.GARDNER
He attended the district schools of his native place and also spent two years as a student in the New York State Normal School at Geneseo. After removing west with his parents he worked on the home farm until twenty years of age and then obtained a position in a hardware store and lumberyard at Corning, IA where he continued for six years. At the end of that time he went on the road for the Simmons Hardware Company, selling hardware to the trade. In 1884 he came to Minneapolis, MN and is still identified with the Gardner Hardware Company of this city (Minneapolis) as its president. In 1906 he removed to the Pacific Coast, organizing the Gardner Timber & Land Company of Gardiner, Washington.
On the 21st of June, 1881, at Yonkers, New York, Mr. Gardner wedded Miss Sophie McLaury, a daughter of Dr. J.S. McLaury of Yonkers. While in Minneapolis, Mr. Gardner held membership in the Westminster Presbyterian church. As a republican candidate he was elected a member of the legislature at Olympia, Washington in 1917 and reelected two years later. (EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
Vol III, pg 454).

CURTIS FREEMONT GARDNER Obituary: This community was shocked at the announcement last Wednesday morning of the death of our beloved fellow citizen, Curtis R. Gardner. Very few of his most intimate friends knew that he had been sick, when the sad news of his death came. On Monday, the 8th, he drove a party of eastern homeseekers up the Box Elder. The day was chilly and he contracted a cold, which rapidly developed into Pneumonia, with the fatal result above mentioned.
Curtis Fremont Gardner was born in Moscow, NY June 20th, 1856. He was married to Hattie J. Sleeper at Bloomington, Ill., on the 6th of September, 1883. After living for a time at Waterloo, Iowa, he was obliged on account of Asthma, to seek for health in the higher altitude of Colorado and located in Fort Collins in March 1901, soon therafter associating in the business of Real Estate with Mr. E. J. Gregory, with whom he remained until his death. Mr Gardner had apparently regained his health during the few years of his residence in Larimer county and was secretary of the First Presbyterian Sunday School of this city, also identifying hismself with the Men�s Presbyterian Club, where he will be greatly missed.
The funeral services were held at his late residence on South College Ave.. Friday afternoon, where a large concourse of friends and relatives gathered to pay their last respects to the dead. The services at the grave were mainly in charge of the Woodmen of the World, of which lodge the deceased was a member.
Besides a wife, one son of 15 and a daughter of 8 years, the other immediate relatives are two brothers, one of whom W.L. Gardner of Minneapolis, Minn. was present at the funeral.

OBIT
GARDNER, WILLIAM L. 1861-1908

Minneapolis Journal, August 26, 1908, page 7, column 5
HORSE�S KICK IS FATAL
W. L. Gardner Dies of Injuries Received Sunday Evening.
W. L. Gardner, hardware dealer at 6 East Lake street, died yesterday at his residence, 3332 Aldrich avenue S., when he was kicked in the groin by his horse.

Mr. Gardner was hitching up his horse to take his family to church when the animal kicked him. He was carried into the house and physicians were summoned, but he did not rally and died yesterday.

He was 47 years old and was a member of the Bethlehem Presbyterian church. He is survived by his wife and two sons.
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Minneapolis Journal, August 27, 1908, page 6, column 1

GARDNER LEAVES $10,000 ESTATE
William L. Gardner, who died August 24, left an estate estimated at $10,000, according to the petition to probate his will, which was filed with the clerk of probate court today. Ida M. Gardner, as exeutrix, submits the petition and says the heirs are her three children, Elizabeth, 19 years old; Floyd, 16 and Walter 4, and herself.