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Early life

Gardiner was born in 1825 in

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. He was the second son of William Howard Gardiner (1797–1880) and Caroline Perkins (1800–1867). His father was a prominent Boston lawyer. His paternal grandfather was Rev.

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(1765–1830) and his maternal grandfather was slave-trader

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, in 1823.

Career

Gardiner co-founded the American Society of Civil Engineers and Architects and served as its first vice president. Five years later in 1857, he was one of the 13 founders, along with

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and

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, of the

. Gardiner was known for his debate with Henry C. Dudley over the issue of architectural competitions.

Personal life

In 1849, he married Sophia Harrison Mifflin (1822–1889), the daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (

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Davis) Mifflin, all of

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. Together, they lived in

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and were the parents of five children, including: * William Howard Gardiner (1851–1906), married Helena Lawrence Baird (1852–1925) in 1873, with whom he had three children. In 1890, he married Tita Butler, daughter of Joseph Butler of Castle Rhebbin, in

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, and granddaughter of the last

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and Lord de Courcy, of Kingsale. * Eugenia Gardiner. * Edward Gardiner II (1854–1907), a

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who married Jane G. Hooper, daughter of Nathaniel Hooper, on April 6, 1895. * Elizabeth Gardiner (1856–1937), a prominent social reformer who married Glendower Evans (d. 1886), a

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educated lawyer who entered the practice of

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, in 1882. Gardiner died in

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of a fall from his horse, in 1859. After his early death, his family relocated to

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with his father where they "grew up as poor relations of a very aristocratic family." Two years later, his widow moved the family to Boston where the children attended private schools.

References

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