OBIT: William H. GARDNER, 1888, Hollidaysburg, Blair County, PA

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WM. H. GARDNER, OF HOLLIDAYSBURG

  Wm. H. Gardner, esq., Cashier of the First National Bank of 
Hollidaysburg, died at his home on Allegheny street, on last Sunday
afternoon at two o'clock.
  Tho'h it was generally known here that for some months past, Mr. 
Gardner had been in delicate health, and required almost constant
attending, the announcement of his death came unexpectedly.  His death
resulted from hardening of the arteries of the brain, and though for
several years past he had been an invalid, he was only confined to his
bed for some ten days previous to his demise.
  The deceased was born in Centre county, in 1826 and was almost sixty 
years of age when the summons to depart, came.  He was married in 1850.
From 1843 to 1860 he was engaged in business either as employe or
proprietor, in Cambria county.  At the outbreak of the civil war, he
accepted a position of division clerk in the U.S. Treasury Department
at Washington, D.C.  He resided in Washington for a few years, when he
removed to Hollidaysburg, afterwards, in 1868, he was appointed Cashier
of what is now the First National Bank, a position which he acceptably
and most successfully filled until his labors closed with his life.  He
was a careful, correct and upright business man, possessed of wonderful
executive abilities.  He enjoyed the respect and esteem not only of a
wide circle of friends and acquaintances in Hollidaysburg, but
throughout Blair and Cambria counties, and his death will be learned
with regret wherever he was known.  His funeral occurred at three
o'clock p.m. on Tuesday last, and interment was made in the
Presbyterian cemetery of Hollidaysburg.  The Martinsburg Deposit Bank
was closed on Monday and Tuesday of this week out of respect to his
memory.

Martinsburg Herald, July 19, 1888