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 HBRRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Garden, Alexander, naturalist, author, was born about 1728 in Scotland. He is a botanical writer of Charleston for whom Linnaeus 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 oiScer in the American army during the revolution. He was the author of Anecdotes of the Revolutionary War. He died Feb. 28, 1829, in Charleston, S.C. Garden, Hugh Richardson, soldier, lawyer, was born July 9, 1840, in Sumter, S.C. He graduated from South Carolina college. In 1861 he enlisted in the

Topeka and New York

Louis,

been a municipal judge

Gardener, Helen Hamilton, journalist, auwas born Jan. 31, 1858, in Winchester, She graduated from the Cincinnati Va.

high

many

southern society. For years he was identified with the afsouth; and now practices law

fairs of the in

New York

City. Gardener, Cornelius, army officer, founder, was born Sept. 4, 1849, in Netherlands, Europe. He was educated at Holland academy; at Hope college of Holland, Mich., from which institution he received the degrees of A.B.; and graduated from West

and

normal

schools; and did post-

graduate work in biology, medicine and other branches in

New

York

City. She is the wife of Colonel S. A. Day of the

United

States army. She is an authority on heredity



and has done

much magazine work as editor and contributor. She has writ-

South Carolina towns.

fifteen years in Warrenton, Va. For two years he was president of the New York

He has

thor,

war; and supervised the construction of cannon using up many church bells of

law and practiced for

City.

and a member of



the Kansas state legislature. He is the author of Lux Crucis; The Silence of Mrs. Harrold; and the Long Arm.

civil

After the close of the civil war, he studied

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ten

many

stories, essays

and

scientific arti-

the author of Men, Women and Gods; Facts and Fictions of Life; Is This Your Son, My Lord?; Pray You, Sir, Whose

She

cles.

is

Daughter?; Pushed by Unseen Hands; A Thoughtless Yes; An Unofficial Patriot, a sociological novel of the civil war; and Historical Sketches of Our Navy. Gardiner, Addison, lawyer, jurist, lieutenant-governor, 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, Alexander, soldier, was born in Hampshire. In 1863 he was first lieutenant and adjutant in the fourteenth regiment New Hampshire infantry; and in 1864 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. He died Oct. 7, 1864.

New

Point military academy. He has been second lieutenant, first lieutenant and also captain of the nineteenth United States infantry; major in the thirteenth infantry; lieutenant-colonel in the twenty-first infantry; colonel in the thirty-first Michigan volunteers; and colonel of the thirtieth United States volunteers. During the Spanish, Cuban and Philippine wars he was civil governor of the province of Tayabas, Luzon, P.I.; and while civil governor of that province reported to the war department the tortures and cruelties of native Philippines by soldiers. While stationed in Michigan, he was the originator and in charge of the popular Pingree potato patches at Detroit, Mich. He is now colonel of the sixteenth infantry, United States army. He is a member of the geographical society of California; a member of the Order of Indian Wars, and other societies. Gardenier, Barent, congressman, was born in Ulster county, N.Y. In 1807-11 he was a representative from New York to the tenth and eleventh congresses. He died Jan. 10, 1832, in Kingston, N.Y.

1880 he graduated from Hamilton college; 1884 graduated from Columbia law school and has received the degrees of L.H.D., Ph,D., D.C'.L. and LL.D. In 1885 he began the practice of law; is general attorney for the elevated and subway railway

Gardenshire, Samuel Major, lawyer, auwas bom Nov. 23, 1855, in Fayette, Mo. Since 1875 he has practiced law in St.

companies of New York City; and counsel and director of various other railway and In 1898 he became financial corporations.

thoi-,

Asa Bird, soldier, lawyer, auwas born Sept. 30, 1839, in New York He was professor of law and lieutenant-colonel at the United States military academy for several years; and later served Gardiner,

thor, City.

as judge-advocate on the staff of General Hancock, commanding the division of the

He was retired from the army at request in 1888 and resumed the practice of law. In 1898 he became district attorney of New York. He is the author of The Order of the Cincinnati in France; and other works. Atlantic. his

own

Gardiner, Charles Alexander, lawyer, auwas born Sept. 2, 1855, in Canada. In

thor, in