Columbia County PA Archives Biographies.....GARDNER, Benjamin Franklin unknown - living in 1899
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    DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN GARDNER, whose equal as an expert manipulator of the
  surgeon's knife has never been known in Columbia County, has been engaged in the
  practice of medicine and surgery in the town of Bloomsburg for many years. He
  has also been in close touch with many enterprises which have not only proven
  remunerative to him, but have also been of material aid in the advancement of
  the interests of the town. He received a good education in the schools of the
  South, after which he took up the study of medicine under the preceptorship of
  Dr. Paul H. Otley, a distinguished surgeon, and later graduated from the Medical
  College of Virginia.
  
    Dr. Gardner received an appointment as surgeon in the Confederate Army upon
  the breaking out of the Civil War and served faithfully until its close. In
  1874, after the country had sufficiently recovered from the effects of the
  terrible war, he was appointed surgeon in chief of the Alabama & Chattanooga
  Railroad during its construction and administration. He was a member of the
  North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania medical societies, and of
  the American Medical Association. He gained greatly in skill while serving as
  railroad surgeon, and upon coming to Bloomsburg later he soon acquired a large
  practice as a physician and surgeon. He is a man of wonderful nerve and superior
  judgment, and his coolness in the most trying cases inspires confidence in the
  patient. He is widely known throughout the eastern section of the state and is
  often called to great distances to perform operations, which would otherwise be
  performed in the hospitals of large cities, as they require a thorough
  understanding of the cases and a skill which is seldom found elsewhere. He is a
  stockholder in many of the leading industries of Bloomsburg and owns
  considerable property. Our subject purchased the Bittenbender property on East
  Main street, upon which he made many improvements and remodeled into a beautiful
  residence. He owns many tenement houses which he has enlarged and remodeled and
  made other improvements. He purchased the old Miller farm upon which he also
  built new buildings and made various improvements, which have made it a
  profitable investment.
  
    Dr. Gardner was united in hymeneal bonds to Ida Melissa Pennington, a daughter
  of Henry Pennington, and a niece of the ex-governor of North Dakota. This union
  resulted in the following issue: Katherine P., who lives at home; Frank P., an
  electrician, who is superintendent of the People's Electric Railroad of
  Nanticoke, Pa.; and Le Roy P., who is now in attendance at Nazareth Hall, Pa.
  
  
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  Extracted from:
    
    Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
    Published by 
    Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
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