Bio of GARDNER, Herbert McLaury (b.1882), 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 McLAURY GARDNER - Vol III, pg 602, 603
Herbert McLaury Gardner, vice president of the Gardner Hardware Company for the
past two decades and vice president and manager of the Minneapolis Civic &
Commerce Association since 1919, was born in Burlington, Iowa, May 21, 1882. His
parents, Herbert B. and Sophie (McLaury) Gardner, came to Minneapolis in May,
1884. The ancestry is traced back in direct line to Lyon Gardiner, who was torn
in 1599 and came to America in 1635. He built the fort at Saybrook,
Con­necticut, and became the first proprietor of Gardner's Island, New York. The
suc­ceeding generations were represented as follows: David, born in 1636; Lyon,
born in 1660; Lyon, born in 1688; Jeremiah, born in 1727; Lyon, born in 1764;
Alanson, born in 1801; W. H. Gardner, who adopted the present spelling of the
family name, born in 1828; Herbert B., born in 1854; and Herbert M., born in
1882.
Herbert M. Gardner acquired his education in the Minneapolis public schools and
was graduated from the Central high school in 1901. In that year he became a
salesman for the Gardner Hardware Company and two years later was made its vice
president, which position he still holds. He served as president of the
Minneapolis Builders Exchange in 1911 and 1912; as president of the Minnesota
State Builders Exchange in 1913; as chairman of the Educational Survey Committee
from 1913 until 1915; as vice president of the civic division of the Minneapolis
Civic & Commerce Association in 1914; as vice president of the industrial
division of the Minneapolis Civic & Commerce Association in 1915 and 1916; was
engaged in war work in 1917 and 1918; and was chosen vice president and manager
of the Minne­apolis Civic & Commerce Association for the years 1919, 1920, 1921,
1922 and 1923.
On the 31st of May, 1905, in Minneapolis, Mr. Gardner married Ruth Silloway,
daughter of Charles P. Silloway. Mr. and Mrs. Gardner have one child, Grace,
born July 30, 1906. Mr. Gardner is a republican in politics, belongs to the
Westminster Presbyterian church and in Masonry has attained the thirty-second
degree of the Scottish Rite and is a member of Zuhrah Temple of the Mystic
Shrine. He also be­longs to the Minneapolis Club, the Interlachen Country Club,
the Lafayette Club and the Minneapolis Automobile Club.