Joseph Gardner (physician)
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Dr. Joseph Gardner (1752–1794) was an American physician who was a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress in 1784 and 1785.
Joseph was born in Honey Brook Township of Chester County, Pennsylvania in 1752. His father Francis Gardner immigrated to Pennsylvania from Ireland in 1733.[1] Joseph Gardner would go on to study medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.[1] He later practiced medicine in Philadelphia.[2] Joseph married Isabella Cochran (1747–1794) and had three children.[3]
During the Revolutionary War, Gardner raised two battalions of troops for service.[1] He also served on the county's Committee of Safety in 1776-1777, and as a representative in the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly from 1776 to 1778.[4] In 1779, he was member of the state's supreme executive council. Pennsylvania sent him as a delegate to the Continental Congress twice,[5] in 1784 and 1785.[6][7] Throughout this time, he continued the practice of medicine.
Gardner moved to Elkton, Maryland in 1792, and also practiced as a physician. He died in Elkton, Cecil County, Maryland in 1794.[8]
References
- 1 2 3 Futhey, J. Smith; Cope, Gilbert (1881). History of Chester County, Pennsylvania: With Genealogical and Biographical Sketches. Unigraphic.
- ↑ "GARDNER, Joseph | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives". history.house.gov. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
- ↑ Wallace, J. P. (1919). Genealogy of the Parke family nine generations from Arthur and Mary Parke. Рипол Классик. ISBN 978-5-87102-118-7.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - ↑ Madison, James (1962). The Papers of James Madison: 1 Jan.-30 Apr. 1783. University of Chicago Press.
- ↑ Lanman, Charles (1876). Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States: During Its First Century. From Original and Official Sources. J. Anglim.
- ↑ Smull's Legislative Hand Book. The State. 1887. p. 228.
- ↑ Congress, United States (1913). A Biographical Congressional Directory: With an Outline History of the National Congress, 1774-1911 : the Continental Congress, September 5, 1774 - October 21, 1788, the United States Congress, from the First to the Sixty-second Congress, March 4, 1789 - March 3, L9ll. U.S. Government Printing Office.
- ↑ "GARDNER, Joseph". Office of the House Historian. Retrieved November 9, 2024.
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| Preceded by John Mackey |
Member, Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, representing Chester County 23 October 1779—2 November 1782 |
Succeeded by John McDowell |
