Carroll-White County IN Archives Biographies.....Gardiner, Archibald 1848 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

ARCHIBALD GARDINER.

   Archibald Gardiner, a prosperous farmer of Adams township, this county, where
he owns two hundred and seventy-five acres of land, is a native of Canada. He is
a plain, honest man of affairs, who has made his influence felt in the township
where he has lived for many years. Mr. Gardiner would be the last man to lay any
claim to greatness. Nevertheless his life presents much that is interesting and
which may be studied with profit by the rising generations. He is one of those
men whose integrity and strength of character receive admirable notice from
their fellow citizens, a notice which their modesty never speaks.

   Archibald Gardiner was born on September 2, 1848, in Ontario, Canada, and is
the son of Archibald and Margaret (Morrison) Gardiner, the former of whom, a
native of Scotland, settled in Canada in pioneer times and in 1863 emigrated to
White county, Indiana, where he spent the remainder of his life. He died four
years later but his wife lived to be seventy years of age. They had ten
children, of whom seven are living.

   Archibald Gardiner, Jr., received a common-school education and lived at home
with his parents until the death of his father. Afterward he was engaged in
various work until November 30, 1884, when he was married to Mrs. Mary Etta
(Bernethy) Longbrake, the widow of Isaac Longbrake, by whom she had three
children, John, Lee and one who died in infancy. To Mrs. Gardiner's second
marriage, there have been born four children, Murray, Inez, Walker and one, the
eldest who died in infancy. Murray married Belle Marsh, of Burnettsville, and
has one child, Murray Star. He operates the home farm. Inez is the wife of
Richard Scully, of Boston, Massachusetts. Walker, who is a graduate of the
Idaville high school, will graduate from Purdue University with the class of 1916.

   Mr. Gardiner owns two hundred and seventy-five acres of well-improved land in
Adams township. His farm is located in sections 4 and 9, of Adams township. He
started out in life with absolutely no assistance, and by hard work, careful and
systematic saving has accumulated little by little his present property in
Carroll county. He raises a very high grade of live stock and has found this
department of farming very profitable.

   Until the organization of the Progressive party in 1912, Mr. Gardiner was
identified with the Republican party, but since 1912 has been identified with
the Progressive party and supported its candidates. Mrs. Gardiner is a member of
the Methodist church.


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Biographical Section of
HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana


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