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Gardner, Dorsey

journalist, author, was born Aug. 1, 1842, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a journalist of New York city who was one of the revisers of the Webster International Dictionary. He was the author of Quatre Bras, Ligny, and Waterloo; and Condensed Etymological Dictionary of the English Language. He died in 1894.

Gardner, Elizabeth Jane

artist, was born in 1842 in Exeter, N. H. Her specialty is ideal figure-pieces. Among her important works are Cornelia and Her Jewels; Cinderella; Corinne; Moses in the Bulrushes; and Maud Muller. The Fortune Teller and Corinne received a medal at the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876.

Gardner, Eugene C

architect, author, was born in 1836 in Massachusetts. He is an architect of Springfield, Mass., and the author of Homes and All About Them; The House that Jill Built; Homes and How to Make Them; Illustrated Homes; Home Interiors; Common Sense in Church Building; and Town and Country School Buildings.

Gardner, Francis

congressman, was born Dec. 27, 1771, in Leominster, Mass. He was a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1807 to 1809. He died June 25, 1835, in Roxbury, Mass.

Gardner, Gideon

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1809 to 1811.

Gardner, Henry

statesman, was born about 1730 in Stowe, Mass. He served in the congresses of February and May, 1775, which met in Watertown, Mass., and was chosen treasurer of the province by the first congress. He died in 1782 in Boston, Mass.

Gardner, Henry J

governor. He was governor of Massachusetts from the year 1855 to 1858.

Gardner, John J

soldier, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 17, 1845, in Atlantic county, N. J. He served three years in the civil war. He was a member of the New Jersey state senate fifteen years, from 1878 to 1893; and was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

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Gardner, John Lane

soldier, was born Aug. 1, 1793, in Boston, Mass. 1813 he was appointed lieutenant of infantry; was brevetted colonel, and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general. He died Feb. 19, 1869, in Wilmington, Del.

Gardner, Joseph

congressman, was born in 1752 in Chester county, Pa. He was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the continental congress in 1784 and 1785. He died in 1794 in Elkton, Md.

Gardner, Samuel Jackson

lawyer, journalist, was born in 1788 in Brookline, Mass. He was a lawyer of Boston, and subsequently a journalist of Newark, N. J., whose essays over the signature Decius were issued in book form with the title Autumn Leaves. He died July 14, 1864, in White Mountain, N. J. was

Gardner, Thomas

soldier, born in 1724 in Cambridge, Mass. In 1775 he raised a regiment according to the instructions of the provincial congress, and was commissioned its colonel. He died June 18, 1775, in Boston, Mass.