Bio of GARDNER, Herbert Brayton (b.1854), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

HERBERT BRAYTON GARDNER - Vol III, pg 454
Herbert Brayton Gardner was born in Moscow, Livingston county, New York, August
25, 1854, a son of William Henry and Lodema T. Gardner. He attended the district
schools of his native place and also spent two years as a student in the New
York State Normal School at Geneseo. After removing west with his parents he
worked on the home farm until twenty years of age and then obtained a position
in a hardware store and lumberyard at Corning, Iowa, where he continued for six
years. At the end of that time he went on the road for the Simmons Hardware
Company, selling hardware to the trade. In 1884 he came to Minneapolis,
Minnesota, and is still identified with the Gardner Hardware Company of this
city as its president. In 1906 he removed to the Pacific coast, organizing the
Gardner Tim­ber & Land Company at Gardiner, Washington.
On the 21st of June, 1881, at Yonkers, New York, Mr. Gardner wedded Miss Sophie
McLaury, a daughter of Dr. J. S. McLaury of Yonkers. While in Minneapolis, Mr.
Gardner held membership in the Westminster Presbyterian church. As a republican
candidate he was elected a member of the legislature at Olympia. Washington, in
1917, and reelected two years later.