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118 ford, J. H. Sperling, George T. Lowell, Ai Stone, J. P. Lynde, Ransom Bolton, Bellarmin Bolton, Luke Whitney, R. G. Reed, Daniel Adams, Ephraim S. Bowker, Luther B. Walker, Samuel Hodgman, B. G. Cochran, Asa F. Smith and Benjamin H. Rugg.

This company was disbanded in 1851; since that time there has been no military company in Gardner.

There were two bands of music formed in 1855. One in the center of the town, called the Gardner Cornet Band, is composed of eighteen members. The other is in the south village, and is called the Mechanics' Cornet Band; it consisted of nineteen members at its formation; it now numbers sixteen.

These organizations have not the power to protect or secure property that belong to the engine companies; yet their music has a tendency to invigorate, enliven and animate the mind, rendering it more capable of enjoying its possessions.