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GARDNER, Washington, lepreseutative. was born iu Morrow count v. Uliio, Feb. 10, 1S45; son of John Lewis and Sarah (Goodin) Gardner; grandson of John and Elizabeth (Grove) Gardner, and of Asa and Margret (Sellars) Goodiii; great-grandson of Moses Goodinor Goodwin, who was born in Massachusetts in 1744; and a de- scendant of John Gardner of Paisley, Scotland, who came to America during the Revolution. He was graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan imi- versity in 1870 and from the Albany law school in 1876. He served in the Union army, 1861-64, and was severely wounded. He was a minister in the Micliigan conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, 1877-89; was for six years agent for the endowment fund of Albion college, and was a professor in Albion college, 1889-94. He was state commander of the Michigan G.A.R. in- 1888, and secretary of the state of Michigan, 1894-99. He was a Republican representative from the 3d Michigan district in the 56tli-58th congresses. 1899-1 ill)."..

GARDNER, William Henry, naval officer, was born in Maryland in 180U. He entered the U.S. naval service as a midshipman in 1814; was commissioned lieutenant in 1825; attached to the Vandalia 1829-30; was promoted commander, 1841, serving as such on the receiving ship Xor- folk in 1843, and on the Vandalia attached to the Pacific squadron. 1850-52; was commissioned captain in September, 1855; commanded the Col- orado, 1859-60; commanded the ilare Island navy yard, California, 1861-62, and in 1862 was given special duty. In July, 1802. he was retired from service with the rank of commodore. The fol- lowing year he was appointed lighthouse in- spector and held this position until his death which occurred in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 18, 1870.

QARESCHE, Julius Peter, soldier, was born in Cuba in is-^l. He was graduated at the U.S. military academy in 1841, and was commissioned 2d lieutenant, 4th artillery. He served on the Xortliern frontier. 1841—12. being on duty at Sacket Harbor, N.Y., during the Canada border disturbances. He was in garrison at Fort Mon- roe. Va., in 1842: at Fort McHenry, Md., 1842-44; at Carlisle Barracks, Pa., 1844-45. and at Fort McHenry, 1845-46. He was promoted 1st lieu- tenant June 18, 1846, and served in the Mexican war, 1846-48, l)eing acting assistant adjutant- general of the Rio Grande district, 1847-48. He was in garrison in Texas, 1849-51; on staif duty in Washington, DC, 1853-58; again in Texas on engineer and frontier duty, 1853-55; served as assistant adjutant-general in Washington, 1855- 63; was brevetted captain, Xov. 9. 1855; hrevetted major. May 14. 1861. and promoted major Aug. 3, 1861. On July 17. 1863. he was made chief of staff of General W. S. Rosecrans with the rank

of lieutenant-colonel. In the battle of Stone's River, when at a critical moment the comnuxnd- ing general with his stalf ilashed forward to turn the tide of the battle. Colonel Gare.sch6 was killed by a cannon-ball. He was one of the founders of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Washington, D.C. Georgetown college, D.C., conferred upon him the degree of A M. in 1842. His death oc- curred near Stone's River. Tenn.. Dec. 31. 1862.

GARFIELD, James Abram, twentietli Presi- dent of the United States, was born iu Orange township, Cuyahoga countj', Ohio, Nov. 19, 1831; son of Abraham and Eliza (Ballou), grandson of Thomas and Asaniatt (Hill), great-grandson of Solomon and Sarali (Stimson), great^ grandson of Thomas and Rebecca (Johnson), great^ grand- son of Thomas and Mercy (Bigelo%v), great' grandson of Capt. Benjamin and Elizabeth (Bridge), great'' grandson of Edward and Re- becca, and great" grandson of Edward Gairfield. the emigrant (born about 1575, died, June 14. 1672), who came from Chester, England, on the border of Wales, and settled in 1636 at Water- town, Mass. His wife is supposed to have been an emigi-ant from Germany to whom he was married on the voyage to America. The family maintained a residence in Massacliusetts, were farmers, and took part in the American Revolu- tion. Solomon, born July 18, 1743, came out of the war impoverished, and to rehabilitate himself removed with his family to the state of Kew York and took up a farm in the wilderness where Worcester, Otsego county, was afterward lo- cated. His son Thomas was a farmer, married a half-sister of Samuel Russell and died in 1800. His son Abraham, born in 1799, was brought up in the family of James Stone, a relative of his mother. He went to Madrid, N.Y., in 1814, where he worked on a farm for three years. In 1817 he removed to Newburg, Ohio, where he engaged in cutting wood and clearing land, and he was married to Eliza Ballou, born in Richmond, N. H., in 1801, a direct descendant of Maturin Ballou, a Huguenot refugee to Rhode Island. Eliza had migrated to Ohio with her brother James in 1814 and settled near Zanesville, where Abraham Garfield joined them in 1830; and on February 3 of that year they were married and settled on a farm of eighty acres in Newbury, Cuyahoga countj', afterward a part of the city of Cleveland. In January, 1S30, after four chil- dren had been born to them, they removed to Orange township where he purchased eighty acres for SIGO, built a log house of a single room, and in this house James A. Garfield was born, Nov. 19, 1831. In May, 1833. the father died and the mother continued to cultivate the farm with the help of her ohlest son. Thomas, ten years old. James joined the force of farm hands when very