BIO:  William H. GARDNER, Latimore 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 468

WILLIAM H. GARDNER, farmer, P. O. York Sulphur Springs, is a great-grandson of 
Bernhard Gardner, and a grandson of John Martin Gardner and Susan (Seabold) 
Gardner, and a son of Daniel and Harriet (Arnold) Gardner.  The latter were 
married June 5, 1837, and had the following children:  William H., born February 
23, 1838; John M., born February 23, 1840; Susan, born April 12, 1841; Arnold 
W., born November 17, 1846.  Daniel Gardner died August 9, 1863, and his widow, 
aged seventy-one years, now resides with her son, William H.  She is a daughter 
of Dr. John B. Arnold, who is mentioned elsewhere in this volume.  John Martin 
Gardner was a son of Bernhard Gardner, and was born November 10, 1766.  He 
married Susan Seabold, who was born January 27, 1778.  He died October 9, 1819, 
and his widow April 8, 1860; both are buried in the Lower Bermudian graveyard in 
Latimore Township.  They had the following children:  George, born November 27, 
1796; Samuel, born August 6, 1798; William, born September 18, 1800; Mary, born 
April 26, 1802; Susannah, born November 18, 1803; Bernhard, born December 24, 
1804; Maria, born November 23, 1806; Martin, born December 24, 1808; Simon, born 
September 16, 1810; Daniel, born September 20, 1812; James R., born December 24, 
1814; Julianna, born February 22, 1819.  These children were born and reared on 
the farm now owned by William H. Gardner, Latimore Township.  William H. was 
reared on the farm, and received the educational advantages afforded by the 
schools of the vicinity; later, attended Bloomfield Academy, in Perry County.  
October 14, 1863, he married Alice L. Myers, a daughter of Amos C. Myers, and 
after marriage they began house-keeping on the old homestead, one-quarter mile 
east of York Springs Borough.  The place consists of about 150 acres greatly 
improved, with good residence, fine grounds and outbuildings.  In politics, Mr. 
Gardner is a Republican.  He takes an active interest in the educational and 
other public enterprises, and he and his wife are members of the Lutheran Church 
at York Springs.  They have a family of seven children:  Daniel A., born August 
21, 1864; Louisa M., born May 7, 1866; Edmund A., born August 14, 1868; Annie 
H., born July 18, 1871; William J., born November 28, 1874; Mary A., born 
November 27, 1879, and Naomi R., born May 17, 1881.