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James Terry Gardiner was born on May 6, 1842, in Troy, New York. He was the son of Daniel and Ann (Terry) Gardiner, both of New England ancestry.
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James Terry Gardiner was born on May 6, 1842, in Troy, New York. He was the son of Daniel and Ann (Terry) Gardiner, both of New England ancestry.
With little education, Gardiner achieved success as a surveyor, a pioneer in the field of public health, and a leader in the coal industry.
He studied for a short time at both Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Sheffield Scientific School.
Gardiner was little more than a boy, however, when he secured a position on the Brooklyn Water Works ; and he was under twenty when he became an inspector of the United States Ordnance Corps in 1861.
During the Civil War, he gained considerable experience through the construction of the earthworks around the harbor of San Francisco.
On the conclusion of peace, he became chief topographer of the United States Geological Survey of the Fortieth Parallel and continued with the survey until 1873, establishing the elevations of various datum points on the Great Lakes and in the Rocky Mountains.
In 1876, he was appointed director of the state survey of New York. His address at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association on “The Relations of Topographical Surveys and Maps to Public Health Studies, ” October 6, 1876, was subsequently published by that organization in Public Health - Reports and, Papers (1877).
He also made a special report on the preservation of the scenery of Niagara Falls (1879).
From 1880 to 1886, Gardiner was a member of the state board of health and was largely instrumental in establishing proper sewerage systems throughout the state. His reputation and influence, however, were more than local.
As early as 1875, he had made a report on the coal and iron fields of Colorado; and after serving as president of the Street Railroad & Lighting Company of St. Joseph, Missouri (1892 - 95), he became vice-president of the coal companies of the Erie Railroad.
In 1899, he was elected president of the Mexican Coke & Coal Company.
Gardiner is known as a shief topographer of the United States Geological Survey of the Fortieth Parallel, who establishing the elevations of various datum points on the Great Lakes and in the Rocky Mountains. Although he seems to have made no technical contribution to the industry, he was a successful executive and administrator and served acceptably as director of a number of coal companies, railroads, and other subsidiary enterprises. Mount Gardiner in Kings Canyon National Park was named in his honor by the California Geological Survey.
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In all his undertakings, Gardiner was noted for his versatility and for his readiness to sense the larger implications of the problem with which he was concerned.
In 1868, Gardiner married Josephine Rogers, who died four years later; in 1881, he married Eliza Greene Doane, daughter of Bishop William Croswell Doane, of Albany, New York.
