Dates

• Existence: 1814 - 1902

Biography

Archibald Gardner (1814-1902) was a bishop for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a member of the Utah territorial legislature, and a builder of sawmills in Utah and Wyoming.

Archibald Gardner was born in 1814 in Scotland, but later moved to Canada with his family. He married in 1839 and later sacrificed his business to join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1845. Gardner went to Nauvoo, Illinois and migrated to Utah with the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1847. While in Utah, he served as an LDS bishop and a member of Utah territorial legislature. Gardner built sawmills in Utah and Wyoming.

Archibald Gardner died in 1902.

Citation:

The Pleasant Grove Flour Mill ... c1993: t.p. (Archibald Gardner)

UPB files, 9/1/95 (Gardner, Archibald, 1814-1902)

Journal of Archibald Gardner, 1944: leaf 1 (b. Aug. 31, 1815)

FamilySearch, via the WWW, June 21, 2004 (Archibald Gardner; b. Sept. 2, 1815; d. Feb. 8, 1902)

Wikipedia, website viewed April 11, 2018 (Archibald Gardner; Archibald Gardner (September 2, 1814, Kilsyth, Scotland--February 8, 1902, Salt Lake City, Utah) was a 19th-century pioneer and businessman who with his knowledge of lumber and grist mills helped establish communities in Alvinston, Ontario; West Jordan, Utah; and Star Valley, Wyoming; he built 36 gristmills and lumber mills, 23 in Utah, 6 in, Canada, 5 in Wyoming, and 2 in idaho; he also built hundreds of miles of canals to introduce the flow of water to the mills' apparatus; he married Margaret Livingston in Brooke, Canada; baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in April 1845; traveled to Nauvoo just as the saints were being driven out; in June 1847 his family started their trek to the Rocky Mountains, arriving October 1, 1847; the site where Archibald built his original flour mill in West Jordan, Utah is now known as Gardner Village and features a collection of other early pioneer homes that now house shops and a restaurant dedicated to him called Archibald's Restaurant)

Find A Grave, website viewed April 11, 2018 (Archibald Gardner; born 2 September 1814 in Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire, Scotland; died 8 February 1902 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah; burial: Salt Lake City Cemetery)

Harold B. Lee Library, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Special Collections Blog, website viewed April 11, 2018 (Archibald Gardner autobiography; Archibald Gardner (1814-1902); handwritten autobiography dealing with his birth and life in Scotland, immigration to Canada, marriage, and joing the Church of Jesus Chirst of Latter-day Saints; Gardner indicates in his autobiography that he was born in August 1815, but other sources say he was born in September 1814; businessman, millwright; built 36 grismills and lumber mills; the site of his original flour mill in West Jordan, Utah is now known as Gardner Village)

UPB files, Jan. 20, 2016 (born in 1815 in Scotland; later moved to Canada with his family; married in 1839; sacrificed his business to join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1845; went to Nauvoo, Illinois, and migrated to Utah with the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1847; while in Utah, served as an LDS bishop and a member of Utah territorial legislature; built sawmills in Utah and Wyoming; died in 1902)

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