- WILLIAM GARDINER, farmer, Sec. 17; P.O. Emerald Grove; born
in Gloucestershire,
- England, Sept. 3, 1826, where he received a college education;
came to Wisconsin in 1846, locating in Bradford, where he purchased
80 acres; afterward purchased 40 acres in La Prairie, and sold
80 acres, and purchased 160 in Bradford - his present homestead.
Married, in 1860, Miss C. A. DOCKSTADER, a native of Montgomery
Co., N.Y.; they have had ten children. Mr. GARDINER has been
Chairman of the Town Board for the past five years; Side Supervisor
a number of terms; Clerk of School Board twenty-two years; also
elected to the Assembly for 1879, receiving 1576 votes against
598 votes for W. H. BARDEN, Democrat. He is one of the oldest
settlers in the township, and has under cultivation 115 acres;
raises stock and grain with much success. Member Congregational
Church.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 885.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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