Sacramento County
Biographies
PHILIP
HOGATE GARDINER
Philip
Hogate Gardiner was born in New
Jersey, August
29, 1846, son of John W. and Sarah (Hogate)
Gardiner, of the New Jersey
families of those names. Grandfather Andrew Gardiner died at about the age of
seventy, and grandmother Uphan (Dubois) Gardiner, at
eighty. Grandfather Hogate lived to be ninety-three.
The mother of P. H. Gardiner died in 1853, but the father, born in August,
1815, is still living in his old home. He paid a visit to his son in 1884,
staying about three months. The subject of this sketch arrived in San
Francisco January
1, 1868, and worked about a year on a farm in Contra
Costa County.
In 1869 he went to Nevada and
spent two years prospecting in the White Pine Mountains, but did not strike
anything rich enough to induce him to stay. In the spring of 1871 he returned
to the Sacramento Valley
and worked a year on a farm near Rio Vista. June 17, 1872, he went to farming on his own account,
renting 250 acres on Brannan Island,
raising grain and vegetables. Early in 1875, in partnership with J. F. Wilcox,
he built the store he now occupies, and on March 5 opened it for trade with a
stock of general merchandise, under the style of Gardiner & Wilcox. January 9, 1878, he bought out his
partner and has since done business as P. H. Gardiner. He has been in charge of
the postoffice since it establishment, March 13,
1879; was the agent of the California Transportation Company for twelve years
to January 1, 1887, and is agent for Wells, Fargo & Co.’s Express. He was
instrumental in establishing a school district for this section, and has been a
trustee there of a good part of the time. He rents a considerable tract of land
across the river, on Grand Island,
on which he raises horses and cattle. Mr. Gardiner was married July 3, 1878, to Miss Ida Pool, a
native of Isleton, daughter of Josiah and Sarah (Freeman) Pool. Their father
owned 600 acres including the village site, until the spring of 1881, when he
lost his property by the floods. He is now living in Arizona,
aged fifty-nine. Thomas Freeman is still living, at Linden,
San Joaquin County,
aged sixty-nine. His brother, Dr. Hugh Freeman, died March 17, 1889, aged seventy-two. Mr. and Mrs.
Gardiner are the parents of three children: Lucretia
Garfield, born July 5, 1881;
John Wilbur, February 15, 1884;
P. H., Jr., February 8, 1886
Transcribed by Karen Pratt.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An
Illustrated History of Sacramento County,
California. Pages 523-524.
Lewis Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2005 Karen Pratt.
Sacramento
County Biographies