Joseph Gardner (physician)
Dr. Joseph Gardner (1752–1794) was an American physician who was a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress in 1784 and 1785.
Background
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ a b c 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. ISBN 978-5-87102-118-7.
- ^ 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.
