Abraham B. Gardner

Abraham Brookins Gardner (born September 2, 1819 in Pownal , Vermont , † November 28, 1881 in Bennington , Vermont) was an American lawyer and politician who was Lieutenant Governor of Vermont from 1865 to 1867 .

Life

Abraham Gardner was born in Pownal, Vermont. As a member of Phi Beta Kappa's brotherhood Delta Upsilon , he graduated from Union College in 1842 . He then studied law and became a lawyer and businessman in Bennington, Vermont. Gardner was President of the Eagle Square Manufacturing Company and the Rutland Railway .

As a member of the Vermont Republican Party , he was prosecutor in the probate court of Bennington County from 1848 to 1857 and commissioner for banking in the government of Vermont from 1859 to 1860 .

In the Vermont House of Representatives he was a member of the House of Representatives from 1860 to 1865 and Speaker of the House from 1863 to 1865. He was Vice Governor of Vermont from 1865 to 1867 and a member of the Republican National Committee .

Gardner was Senator in the Senate of Vermont from 1870 to 1872. In 1872 he ran unsuccessfully for governor of Vermont and was the joint candidate of the Vermont Democratic Party and the Liberal Republican Party. As an assistant to Horace Greeley , he served in the presidential election in the United States in 1872 . In the late 1870s he was a member of the Bennington Battle Monument Commission.

Gardner died in Bennington on November 28, 1881. His grave is in Old Bennington Cemetery.

Others

In records, his first name sometimes appears as Abram, and his middle name is sometimes written as Brooks or Brookings. Several relatives shared this name, including one (born January 6, 1858, † January 2, 1914), who was also a member of the House of Representatives from Vermont.

Web links

• Abraham B. Gardner in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ One Thousand Men , edited by the Vermont Historical Society, 1915, p. 236
2. ^ Centennial Catalog: New York Alpha of the Phi Beta Kappa, Union College , Issued by College, 1922, 38
3. ^ The Delta Upsilon Quinquennial Catalog , edited by the fraternity, 1884, 195
4. ^ Gazetteer and Business Directory of Rutland County, Vt., 1881-82, by Hamilton Child, 1882, 44
5. ^ Historical Note, Eagle Square Manufacturing Company Records , Special Collections, Bailey / Howe Library, University of Vermont, accessed July 23, 2014
6. ^ The Massachusetts Register , edited by George Adams, Boston, p. 217
7. ^ Biographical Encyclopaedia of Vermont of the Nineteenth Century, edited by Metropolitan Publishing and Engraving, Boston, pp. 187-190
8. ↑ List of Speakers of the Vermont House of Representatives , edited by the Vermont Legislature, 2009
9. ^ Journal of the Senate of the State of Vermont , edited by Vermont General Assembly, 1863, 13
10. ^ History and Genealogy of the Jewetts of America , by Frederic Clarke Jewett, Issue 2, 1887, pp. 738-739
11. ↑ General Election results, Vermont Lieutenant Governor, 1813-2011 ( Memento of the original of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Edited by Vermont Secretary of State , State Archives and Records Administration, 2011, 11 
12. ^ Proceedings of the First Three Republican National Conventions of 1856, 1860 and 1864 , edited by Charles W. Johnson, Minneapolis, 1893, p. 242
13. ^ The Star That Set: The Vermont Republican Party, 1854-1974 , by Samuel B. Hand, 2003, 41
14. ^ Record, History, and Description of the Bennington Battle Monument , edited by CA Pierce, Bennington, 1887, 12
15. ^ Necrology entry, Abraham B. Gardner , 1882 Annual Meeting Report, American Bar Association, 1883, 164
16. ^ Bennington, Vermont Cemetery Inscriptions, Lynne M. Cassano, 1999, accessed January 2, 2012
17. ^ Men of Vermont: An Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters and Sons of Vermont , Compiled by Jacob G. Ullery, 1894, pp. 153-154
18. ^ Vermont Death Records, 1909-2008, recorded for Abraham B. Gardner (1858-1914), accessed January 2, 2012