San Joaquin County Biographies
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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, Va., and after graduating he taught school for a number of years and then took a business course at Nashville, Tenn., and entered the employ of the Norfolk & Western Railroad, and from 1898 to 1905 was in their auditing department at Roanoke, Va. Leaving the employ of the railroad company he entered the University College of Medicine at Richmond, Va., 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, Pa., 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.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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