Napa County Biographies

A. M. GARDNER, M.D.

Transcribed by: Bonnie Phelan

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A.M. Gardner, M.D., who has lately been appointed as a physician at the Napa 
Insane Asylum, under Dr. Wilkins, the physician in charge, is one of the leading 
and more prominent members of the medical fraternity in Napa County. For 
thirteen years he has resided continuously, until appointed to his present 
important position, in Calistoga, being for much of that time the only physician 
in the upper part of the valley, and building up a high reputation for skill and 
success in practice.
      Dr. Gardner was born September 30,1849, in Watertown, Jefferson County, 
New York. When eleven years of age, the family removed to Illinois, and there 
the subject of this article was educated, graduating at the State Normal 
Collage. For five years thereafter he taught with distinction, being for the 
last two years at the head of the largest school in Springfield, the capital 
city. Desiring, however, a field more commensurate with his abilities he began 
the study of medicine, his first preceptor being the well-known Dr. Charles Ryan 
of Springfield. Later on he went to St. Louis and pursued at the same time 
studies in the arts and medicine, graduating as a Master of Arts in May 1877, at 
the splendid Christian Brothers� University, and in October of the same year, 
Doctor of Medicine at the St. Louis Medical Collage. The Doctor practiced 
medicine for a little time in St. Louis, but shortly after came out to 
California, settling at Calistoga, and residing there until lately. Dr. Gardner 
has been an active mover in all matters of general benefit, being one of the 
original incorporators of the town of Calistoga, and for several years President 
of its Board of Trustees, and a school director. His residence in Calistoga is a 
very handsome building, much the finest in the place. He also erected a fine 
brick block on Main Street in the town, in which was his office. He is a member 
of the State Medical Society, having contributed to it important papers on 
different subjects, one, that namely, on the use of electricity in cases of 
stricture- attracting much attention in the profession. He is also Secretary of 
the Napa County Medical Society, of which body he is one of the founders. He is 
also President of the Napa County Board of Health, a body organized during the 
past year, largely through his efforts. During 1891 he will attend, in company 
with Dr. Hatch, Superintendent of the Agnew Insane Asylum, the meeting of the 
National Board of Medical Superintendents of America, a duty of great 
importance.
      Dr. Gardner was married, in 1880, to Mrs. Wilcox, nee Taylor, of Oakland, 
who is a native of this State. They have two children, a son and a daughter.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California The Lewis Publishing Co., 
1891 Page 927