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DR. JOHN M. GARDNER
Well-known in the San Joaquin Valley
as a specialist of the eye, ear, nose and throat diseases, Dr. John M. Gardner
is a native of Virginia, born at Hillsville, Carroll County, on June 16, 1874. He was educated in the grammar and high
schools of that city; later entered the State Normal at Marion, Virginia, and
after graduating he taught school for a number of years and then took a
business course at Nashville, Tennessee, and entered the employ of the Norfolk
& Western Railroad, and from 1898 to 1905 was in their auditing department
at Roanoke, Virginia. Leaving the employ
of the railroad company he entered the University College of Medicine at Richmond,
Virginia, in 1905, and spent three years, completing his course in 1909 at the
University of Nashville and received the M. D. degree. For two years he engaged in the general
practice of his profession in Oklahoma and in October, 1910, came to California
and engaged in the United States Indian Service for one year, and early in 1912
located at Lodi, where he began to build up a general practice.
Deciding to specialize in his
profession, Dr. Gardner went east and took a post graduate course in the
Chicago Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat College and was graduated in 1918. Coming back to California, he enlisted in the
Medical Corps of the U. S. Army and was attached to Ambulance Company No. 263,
16th Sanitary Train, 16th Division, at Camp Kearney, and
remained there until he was honorably discharged in 1919. To further perfect himself in his specialty
he went to New York and during 1918 and 1919, did special work in the New York
Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital, also in the New York Eye and Ear
Infirmary, returning to Lodi in October, 1919, where he took up his specialized
work and is the only specialist in his line in Lodi. In 1922 he returned to the same institutions
in the east and did further special work.
Dr. Gardner’s marriage united him
with Miss Harriet T. Brown, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who is a
very successful dentist. She is a
graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of San Francisco, receiving
her degree of D. D. S. in 1909. She is a
member of the State and County Dental associations. They are the parents of one daughter, Eleanor
Virginia, born in Lodi. Fraternally Dr.
Gardner is a member of Lodi Lodge of Masons No. 256; of the Lodi Knights of
Pythias No. 41; also of the Red Men; and a member of the State and County
Medical, and the American Medical Associations.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1183. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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