When James Charles Gardiner was born in June 1857, in Illinois, United States, his father, Robert G. Gardiner, was 20 and his mother, Mary Hutton, was 20. He married Amy May Taylor on 25 November 1896, in Glenwood Springs, Garfield, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 15 April 1910, in Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States, at the age of 52.
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Abraham Lincoln's goal was to be different than the previous Senators of Illinois and voice his opinion in how he saw the State and the United States start to drift apart in the different ideology on what was right and what was wrong. Even though it would become an unsuccessful campaign strategy to win the senate seat, to this day it is one of the most famous speeches of US politics.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
English and Scottish: variant of Gardner .
History: Lion Gardiner came from England in 1635 to Saybrook, CT, the settlement of Earl of Warwick patentees at the mouth of the Connecticut River, and built a fort there. Born in 1636, his son, David, was the first white child born in the settlement. Lion later bought the Isle of Wight, now Gardiners Island, from the Indians, and moved his family there until 1653, when he bought land in what is now Easthampton, Long Island, NY.
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