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John Almus Gardner (Weakley County, Tennessee, attorney, politician, and railroad executive.)

b. 1809-08-19 d. 1892-01-05

Weakley County, Tennessee, attorney, politician, and railroad executive. Tennessee native. Married to Maria Terrell Gardner in 1828. Father of Ada Gardner, Laura A. Gardner, Algernon Colegate Gardner, Louisa M. Gardner, and Joseph O. Gardner. Married to Agnes H. Cowardin Gardner in 1850. Father of Almus H. Gardner, Ernest M. Gardner, Fanny B. Gardner, Percy W. Gardner, Colin Gardner, Wesley W. Gardner, and Jackey L. Gardner. Founded the West Tennesseean newspaper in Paris, Tennessee, in 1827. Opened law practice in Dresden, Tennessee, in 1829. Editor of The Jacksonian newspaper in 1838. Member of the Senate of the State of Tennessee from 1841 to 1847. Attorney in Weakley County in 1850. Established the Nashville & Northwestern Railroad Company in 1852. President of the Nashville & Northwestern Railroad Company in 1855. Attorney in Weakley County in 1860. Planter in Weakley County.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Weakley County, Dresden, p. 484A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Weakley County, Civil District No 3, p. 6. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Weakley County, Civil District No 3, p. 11. James Alex Baggett, Homegrown Yankees: Tennessee's Union Cavalry in the Civil War (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009), 204. Virginia C. Vaughn, Tennessee County History Series: Weakley County (Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1983), 41. Find A Grave, "Col. John Almus Gardner, Jr., (1809-1892)," Memorial #80848411, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80848411/john-almus-gardner (accessed March 21, 2018).

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Gardner, John Almus. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200594 (November 12, 2026).

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