Bio of Gardam, Rev. William (b.1851) Wabasha Co., MN
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Gardam, Rev. William, rector of St. Mark's church, Lake City, was born in
Clitheroe, Lancashire, England, October 18, 1851, and was educated there
in the common branches. In 1872 he entered the Headingley College, at
Yorkshire, England, where he pursued the study of the classics,
mathematics and theology. In 1875 he became a student at the Lincoln
Theological College, and at the same time became an under-graduate of the
University of London. At the end of two years he was ordained deacon, and,
the following year, priest in the Lincoln Cathedral, England, by the Rt.
Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, bishop of Lincoln. His first ministerial work
was curate of Bourne Abbey church, Lincolnshire, England, where he
remained from 1877 to 1879. At this juncture he found himself prostrated
with a nervous breakdown, and in October, 1879, came to America with a
view to improving his health. In the fall of 1880 he was called to the
rectorship of the St. Paul's church at Plymouth,Wisconsin, whence he came
to Lake City in May, 1883. He was married December 27, 1881, at Milwaukee,
by Bishop Welles, to Miss Mary Chase Smith, a great-granddaughter of
Bishop Chase, and daughter of the noted railroad man, H. N. Smith, of
Milwaukee. Mr. Gardam's father, James B. Gardam, who is a scientific
chemist, now resides at Cleveland, Ohio.