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Garden, Alexander – Gardner, Dennis J

Garden, Alexander

clergyman, author, was born about 1685 in Scotland.

He was an episcopal clergyman of Charleston remembered for his vigorous opposition to Whitefield. He was the author of Six Letters to the Reverend George Whitefield; and Two Sermons. He died Sept. 27, 1756, in Charleston, S. C.

Garden, Alexander

naturalist, author, was born about 1728 in Scotland.

He is a botanical writer of Charleston for whom Linnæus named the genus Gardenia. He went to England as a loyalist in 1783, and became vice-president of the Royal society. He died April 15, 1791, in London, England.

Garden, Alexander

soldier, author, was born Dec. 4, 1757, in Charleston, S. C. He was an officer in the American army during the revolution, and the author of Anecdotes of the Revolutionary War. He died Feb. 28, 1829, in Charleston, S. C.

Gardenier, Barent

congressman.

He was a representative in congress from New York from 1807 to 1811.

Gardenier, Wilson H

educator, lawyer, was born Sept. 26, 1838, in Middletown, N. Y. He received his education at the Falley seminary of Fulton, Oswego, N. Y. During the war he raised a company of volunteers and gave his assistance to the Union. During 1865- 66 he was principal of one of the public schools in Oswego.

He was admitted to the bar in 1864 and has attained success as a lawyer of Oswego, N. Y.

Gardiner, Addison

lawyer, jurist, was born March 19, 1797, in Rindge, N. H.

In 1844 and 1846 he was lieutenant-governor of New York, but resigned his office in the latter year, having been elected a judge of the court of appeals. He died June 5, 1883, in Rochester, N. Y.

Gardiner, Frederick

clergyman, author, was born in 1822 in Maine. He was an episcopal clergyman, professor in the Berkeley Divinity school at Middletown from 1869, and the author of The Island of Life, an Allegory; Commentary on Epistle of Jude; Harmony of the Four Gospels in Greek; Harmony of the Four Gospels in English: Diatessaron; The Principles of Textual Criticism; The Old and New Testaments in their Mutual Relations, and Aids to Scripture Study.

Gardiner, James Terry

civil engineer, was born May 6, 1842, in Troy, N.

Y. From 1876 till 1886 he was director of the state survey of New York, and from 1880 till 1886 a member of the New York state board of health.

Gardiner, John

legislator, lawyer, was born in 1731 in Boston, Mass. He moved to Pownalboro', Maine, and represented that town in the Massachusetts legislature until his death. He died Oct. 15, 1793, in Cape Ann, Mass.

Gardiner, Mills

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 30, 1830, in Russellville, Ohio. He was prosecuting attorney for Fayette county for four years; a state senator from 1862 to 1864; and a presidential elector in 1864. He was a representative in the legislature from 1866 to 1868; a member of the state constitutional convention in 1873; and was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-fifth congress.

Gardner, Charles L

lawyer, legislator, was born May 27, 1839, in Cummington, Mass. He has attained success as a prominent lawyer in Palmer, Mass.

In 1875-76 he was a representative in the Massachusetts state legislature and in 1878-79 was a state senator. He has been United States revenue assessor, and district attorney since 1892.

Gardner, Dennis J

educator, lawyer, banker, was born Feb. 26, 1853, in Platteville, Wis. He has been vice-president of board of regents of normal schools of Wisconsin and president of the State bank of Platteville.