Sacramento County
Biographies
LESTER POOL GARDINER
LESTER POOL GARDINER.--An enterprising business man, in whom the people of the community have such confidence that the public has become the greatest asset to him and the important commercial concern he represents, is Lester Pool Gardiner, the able, far-seeing manager of the popular general merchandise store of the Gardiner Company at Isleton, where he was born, on October 3, 1891. He is a son of Philip Hogate and Ida (Poole) Gardiner, whose stimulating life-story is elsewhere sketched in this historical work.
Lester Pool Gardiner attended the grammar school at Isleton and the Sacramento high school. When he had finished his formal schooling, he identified himself with the Gardiner Company of Isleton, and its numerous interests there. He was among the first to respond to his country's need, when the World War involved the United States, and in August, 1917, he entered the American Army, and was sent to Camp Lewis, where he was placed in the 364th Ambulance Corps. He trained there until July, 1918, and then went overseas to France with the 91st division, via New York, Southampton and Cherbourg. He served as a private in this contingent until May, 1919, and was then honorably discharged, upon his return to the United States. He took part in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, and the Lys-Scheldt offensive in Belgium.
Since coming back to Isleton, Mr. Gardiner has been manager of the General Merchandise Store of the Gardiner Company, and he also looks after the town properties of the estate. He is a director in the Bank of Isleton, and politically he is a Republican.
Mr. Gardiner was married at San Francisco, on July 10, 1913, to Miss Esther Alice Beckman, a native of Sacramento, and their fortunate union has been blessed with the birth of two sons, Lester Pool, Jr., and John Wilbur. Mr. Gardiner is a member of Franklin Lodge No. 143, F.& A. M., at Courtland, and is a past master; and he is also a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a charter member of Ben Ali Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., in Sacramento, and with his wife is a member of Onisbo Chapter O. E. S., at Courtland. Mrs. Gardiner is a member and past noble grand in Hogate Rebekah Lodge at Isleton. Mr. Gardiner has been a director in the Isleton Chamber of Commerce since the time of its organization.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 784. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.