1882 History of Linn
County, Missouri
BIOGRAPHY
JOHNSON CISNEY GARDNER Brookfield and Brookfield Twp., p. 541
is the
son of Ephraim H. and Catharine Gardner, and was born on a farm near
Rimersburg, Charion county, Pennsylvania,
March 25, 1843. He lived with his parents until he has eighteen years of age,
receiving his education in the public schools and in the Rimersburg Academy,
which latter he attended two years. When
but eighteen years old (July, 1861), he enlisted in defense of the Union, in
Company E of the Sixty-second Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry and served three
years, first as a private and subsequently as color-sergeant.
During
his service he was engaged in the following battles and skirmishes: Yorktown, Virginia; Siege of Yorktown,
Virginia; Hanover Court House, Virginia; McCainesville, Virginia; Gaines Hill,
Virginia; Malvern Hill, Virginia; Harrison’s Bar; Gainesville, Virginia; Antietam,
Maryland; Blackford’s Ford, Maryland; Kearneysville, Virginia;
Chancellorsville; Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; Funkstown, Maryland; Rappahannock
Station; New Hope Church, Virginia; Mine Run, Virginia; Petersburgh,
Virginia. He was discharged at Pittsburgh in July 1864,
and at once returned to Rimersburg, where he learned the photograph business
under B. L. H. Dabbs, a celebrated artist of that city. Mr. Gardner remained with Dabbs till late in
1865, when he went to Burgettstown and established a gallery. In 1866 he went to Philadelphia to receive further instructions
in photography. In 1867 he sold out,
removing to Fairview, West
Virginia, where he engaged in the same business until the fall of
1871, when he came to Brookfield,
and opened a gallery. He has built up a
good and steadily increasing business and the work sent out from his “art rooms”
rarely fail to please. In July, 1867,
Mr. Gardner was married to Miss Lizzie, daughter of T. J. Spivey of Fairview,
West Virginia. Four children have been
born of this union, whose names are Mollie, Tillie, Albert, and Earl. Mr. Gardner is both a Mason and Odd Fellow,
and is a consistent, earnest member of each of those orders.
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