Cornelius Gardinier
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Cornelius Gardinier was an American politician from New York
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He lived in Fultonville, New York
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He was a Canal Commissioner
from 1854 to 1856, elected on the Whig ticket.
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
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Life
He married Jane Quackenbush (b. 1799) and their son was Henry Wemple Gardinier (later Gardner) (1818–1889).He lived in Fultonville, New York
Fultonville, New York
Fultonville is a village in Montgomery County, New York, United States. The population was 710 at the 2000 census. The village is named after Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat....
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He was a Canal Commissioner
Erie Canal Commission
The New York State Legislature appointed in 1810 a Commission to Explore a Route for a Canal to Lake Erie, and Report which became known as the Erie Canal Commission...
from 1854 to 1856, elected on the Whig ticket.
Sources
- Official State Canvass in NYT on January 3, 1854
- The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (page 42; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
- http://genforum.genealogy.com/quackenbush/messages/565.html Gardinier-Quackenbush, at GenForum