From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, pages 495-496.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


JOHN GARDNER

John Gardner, a well-known blacksmith of West Liberty, was born July 
10, 1839, in Washington county, Penn.  He is the son of Samuel and 
Jane Gardner, who were born in what is now West Virginia, he in May, 
1816, and she on March 27,1817. Her family name was Noah. To this 
union were born four sons and six daughters, of whom eight are now 
living. The mother of these children died, 11, 1852, and subsequently 
the father was married to Margaret Sease, by whom he had five 
children, two sons and one daughter of whom survive.  The father now 
resides at New Brighton, Penn., where he is engaged in working at his 
trade as a blacksmith.  John Gardner was educated in the public 
schools of Brooke county, and also in an academy of Washington 
county, Penn., after which he went to work in a blacksmith shop with 
his father, and this trade he has followed ever since.  On August 22, 
1862, Mr. Gardner enlisted in Company C, Twenty-second Pennsylvania 
cavalry, and followed his trade in the army until he received an 
honorable discharge at the close of the war, June 1, 1865.  He then 
came to West Liberty, which has since been his home.  He is an 
influential citizen, was elected justice of the peace in l876, and 
held the office to the general satisfaction four years, and is now 
the school commissioner of Liberty district. He is a member of the 
Masonic Order and the G.A.R.  By his marriage to Keziah Cunningham, 
of Allegheny county, Penn., he has had seven daughters and two sons, 
two of whom are deceased. 


(Linda Fluharty)