Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Gardner, Benj. 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Benj. Gardner, grain dealer, Covington, well known to the citizens, is a
native of Richland county, Ohio, where he was born in 1820. He had little chance
of acquiring an education, his father dying when he was but fifteen years old.
Until he was twenty-five he assumed many of the responsibilities of the
household, and aided in many ways his younger brothers and sisters. In 1845 he
came west and located at Covington, and began work for Mr. J. G. Hardy, with
whom he remained seven years. He then engaged in market butchering and packing
pork the principal part of the time until 1872, and from 1872 till 1877 on his
farm, which is located one mile southeast of Covington, and which he bought in
1856. In 1877, in company with Mr. J. M. Duncan, he engaged in the grain trade.
Their grain-house is located on the line of the Indianapolis, Bloomington &
Western railway, and has a capacity of 10,000 bushels of wheat and 5,000 bushels
of ear corn. Besides the business interests owned by Mr. Gardner in and about
Covington he has a large tract of valuable land located near the town of
Eldorado, Kansas. Mr. Gardner, from boyhood, has been wholly dependent upon his
own resources, and whatever success he has met with in life has been due to his
own energy, industry and good management.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


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