Dade County FlArchives Biographies.....Gardner, John D. 1872 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.140  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present  

        JOHN D. GARDNER, who entered upon his duties as postmaster of Miami in
February, 1922, is a business man, with a large experience and merchandising.
The Miami Post Office is his first public or political responsibility and to
his duties he has brought the training and the attitude of a practical business
man.
	Mr. Gardner was born at Richmond, Indiana, in 1872, and is of Quaker 
parentage. Wayne County, of which Richmond is the county seat, has long been 
famous as a seat of a large Quaker population. Mr. Gardner grew up there, 
acquired a public school education, and he began his business career as clerk 
in a store at Richmond. In 1905 he came to Florida, and lived for six years at 
Gainesville and for five years at Marianna. He established his home at Miami in 
April, 1918, and until he took up his duties in the post office he was a buyer 
and department manager in the department store of W. M. Burdine's Sons.
	Mr. Gardner was one of twelve men who took the civil service 
examination for the postmastership. He was one of the three who received the
highest percentage in the examination, and as he had the endorsement of the
County and State Republican Committees, he was the applicant whose name was
referred to the United States Senate for the appointment.
	Mr. Gardner married Miss STELLA WOODY, of Fountain City, Indiana, in
the same section of the state where he was reared. They have one son, DONALD W.
GARDNER, who graduated from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in
June, 1922, and is now beginning his service as an officer in the navy.


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