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Gardiner, Sylvester

physician, pioneer, was born June 29, 1707, in South Kingston, R. I. He became proprietor of a part of Plymouth purchase on the Kennebeck river. About the middle of the century he colonized it with Germans, and settled the town of Pittston, from which the present city of Gardiner, Maine, was afterward set off. He died Aug. 8. 1786, in Newport.

GARDNER, AUGUSTUS KINSLEY, physician, author, was born July 13, 1812, in Roxbury, Mass. He was a physician of New York city, and the author of The French Metropolis; Causes of Sterility; Conjugal Sins; Our Children; a Handbook for Parents; Old Wine in New Bottles; Ships and Shipbuilders of New York; and translation of Scanonzi's Diseases of Females. He died April 7, 1876, in New York city.

GARDNER, CHARLES KITCHELL, soldier, author, was born in 1787 in Morris county, N. J. He was a United States army officer who was postmaster of Washington in President Polk's administration. He was the author of Dictionary of United States Army Commissioned Officers from 1789 to 1853; Compendium of Military Tactics; and Permanent Designation of Companies, and lesser works. He died in 1869.