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John Lowell Gardner

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John Lowell Gardner

Birth
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
24 Jul 1884 (aged 80)
Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
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Oxalis Path Lot 2900
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John Lowell Gardner (1804-1884) was born in Boston, the eldest son of Samuel Pickering and Rebecca Russell (Lowell) Gardner. He graduated from Harvard in 1821 and, in 1824, began his successful career as a merchant in Boston. In 1825, he was a partner in the firm of Gardner & Lowell at 23 Long Wharf with Francis G. Lowell. In 1836, John L. Gardner and his brother George formed a partnership under the name John L. Gardner & Company, with offices at 47 India Street. In 1850, he moved to State Street and, in 1853, took his son George A. Gardner into the business. Largely interested in commerce in the East Indies and Russia, he traded also with Sumatra, primarily importing pepper. During his later years, he took a less active role in his merchant business and turned his attention to real estate matters in Boston and Brookline. He held properties in Salem, Boston, Brookline, and Maine.

He married Catherine Endicott Peabody in 1826. They had five children who survive into adulthood: Joseph Peabody Gardner (m. Harriet Sears Amory), George Augustus Gardner, John Lowell Gardner (m. Isabella Stewart), Julia Gardner, and Eliza Blanchard Gardner.
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SOURCE: https://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0277
John Lowell Gardner (1804-1884) was born in Boston, the eldest son of Samuel Pickering and Rebecca Russell (Lowell) Gardner. He graduated from Harvard in 1821 and, in 1824, began his successful career as a merchant in Boston. In 1825, he was a partner in the firm of Gardner & Lowell at 23 Long Wharf with Francis G. Lowell. In 1836, John L. Gardner and his brother George formed a partnership under the name John L. Gardner & Company, with offices at 47 India Street. In 1850, he moved to State Street and, in 1853, took his son George A. Gardner into the business. Largely interested in commerce in the East Indies and Russia, he traded also with Sumatra, primarily importing pepper. During his later years, he took a less active role in his merchant business and turned his attention to real estate matters in Boston and Brookline. He held properties in Salem, Boston, Brookline, and Maine.

He married Catherine Endicott Peabody in 1826. They had five children who survive into adulthood: Joseph Peabody Gardner (m. Harriet Sears Amory), George Augustus Gardner, John Lowell Gardner (m. Isabella Stewart), Julia Gardner, and Eliza Blanchard Gardner.
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SOURCE: https://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0277

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