Talk:Caleb Gardner

Dorsey Gardner
I removed the biography of his great-grandson Dorsey Gardner. Here is the text:

His great-grandson, Dorsey, born in Philadelphia, August 1, 1842, is a grandson of Dr. John Syng Dorsey. He moved to Trenton, New Jersey, in 1854, and entered Yale in 1860, but did not graduate. In 1864-5 he published the "Daily Monitor," a journal established at Trenton in support of the Lincoln administration in the conduct of the war, and with the special purpose of creating public sentiment through New Jersey against the extension of the exclusive privilege of transportation between New York and Philadelphia, which was then possessed by the Camden and Amboy railroad company. In 1866-'8 he was one of the editors and proprietors of the "Round Table," a weekly literary and critical journal published in New York. After spending several months in Europe, he held editorial positions on the "Commercial Advertiser" and the "Christian Union," of New York, until he removed to Florida in 1869. Returning thence to Philadelphia in 1872, he became one of the secretaries of the United States centennial commission, and was charged with the publication of all the official documents relating to the International exhibition of 1876, including its catalogue and eleven volumes of final reports. Subsequently he assisted, in the state department at Washington, in the preparation of the official report on the Paris international exhibition of 1881 by the United States commissioner-general, Richard C. McCormick. He has published "Quatre Bras, Ligny, and Waterloo: a Narrative of the Campaign in Belgium, 1815" (Boston and London, 1882), and "A Condensed Etymological Dictionary of the English Language," a rearrangement, on an etymological basis, of the "American Dictionary of the English Language " of Dr. Noah Webster (Springfield, Massachusetts, and New York, 1884; London, 1886).

--Cam (talk) 05:52, 9 January 2008 (UTC)