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Edward A. Gardner (Louisville, KY, grocer)

b. 1813-04 d. 1872-01-08

Louisville, Kentucky, grocer. Massachusetts native. Married to Laurina P. Holm Gardner in Cumberland County, Maine, on May 15, 1841. Father of Charles H. Gardner, Elizabeth C. Gardner, Catherine Gardner, Sarah H. Gardner, and Edward A. Gardner, Jr. Merchant in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Grocer in Louisville in 1860. Grocer in partnership with William O. Gardner in Gardner & Company in Louisville in 1861. Grocer in partnership with Charles H. Gardner in Gardner & Company in Louisville in 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3, p. 296A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 6, p. 252.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 8, p. 100A.

Maine Marriage Records, 1713-1922, Maine State Archives, Cumberland County Marriages, Film 41, p. 1.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 96.

Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), 313.

"Edward A. Gardner (1812-1872)," Find A Grave, Memorial 127651962, accessed May 22, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127651962.

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Gardner, Edward A.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210552 (November 12, 2026).

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