BIO:  Albert C. GARDNER, Huntington Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 458

ALBERT C. GARDNER, postmaster at York Sulphur Springs, was born at York Springs, 
June 11, 1835, and is a son of William Gardner (elder brother of Arnold 
Gardner), an old merchant of York Springs, who began business there when 
eighteen years of age and continued until fifty-six years old, when he died.  
Part of the time he did a wholesale trade, and supplied many of the store-
keepers in the small towns adjoining.  He carried a general stock of everything, 
even to hoop-poles, and his sales in one year amounted to $50,000.  He was 
probably the most successful merchant that ever did business at York Springs.  
Our subject, for five years after leaving college, was in the wholesale boot and 
shoe business at Philadelphia, and afterward in the straw goods trade, being in 
all very successful.  He was appointed postmaster at York Sulphur Springs July 
1, 1885, by President Cleveland’s administration.  Mr. Gardner has been twice 
married, and is very comfortably situated.