Robert Hawley Gardner

Sources

1. U.S. Federal Census, 1900, New Jersey, Essex County, Bloomfield City, E.D. 199, Sheet No. 5A, Robt. W. Gardiner, 65, New York, Mar. 1835, chemist; wife of 40 years Adelia K. Gardiner, 61, New York, Nov. 1838, 4 children, 2 living; son Robt. H. Gardiner, 32, New Jersey, Sept. 1867, chemist; son Edward W. Gardiner, 24, New Jersey, Dec. 1875, chemist; sister-in-law Annette Hawley, 64, New York, May 1836; servant Francis Brown, 27, Virginia, Jan. 1873, married 5 years, no children, servant.
2. Autobiography of Robert Winslow Gardner, With Biographical Notes, by R. W. Gardner. Orange, New Jersey, Nineteen Hundred and Eleven. (Digitized by Google, and available at babel.hathitrust.org.) The autobiographical section provides limited vital details and extensive stories and anecdotes of Robert Winslow Gardner’s life. He tells very little of his family life or his family members. The biographical section, written after his death, provides several additional stories about Mr. Gardner, and mentions his development of hydriodic acid (“Gardner’s Syrup”), for which he is most well known. The biography concludes with a Genealogy detailing his descent from John Gardner of Ballmony, North of Ireland, and ends with vital details of his marriage, his wife and four children.