{{short description|American architect}} {{for|the Australian footballer|Teddy Gardiner}} {{Use American English|date = December 2019}} {{Use mdy dates|date = December 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Edward Gardiner | image = | caption = | birth_date = 1825 | birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts | death_date = 1859 (aged 33-34) | death_place = Chicago, Illinois | parents = William Howard Gardiner<br>Caroline Perkins | spouse = {{marriage|Sophia Harrison Mifflin<br>|1849|<!-- Omission per Template:Marriage instructions -->}} | children = 5 | relatives = John Perkins Cushing (uncle)<br>John Sylvester John Gardiner (grandfather)<br>Thomas Handasyd Perkins (grandfather) }} '''Edward Gardiner''' (1825–1859) was an American civil engineer and architect. He co-founded the American Society of Civil Engineers and Architects and served as its first vice president. Five years later, he became one of the 13 founders of the American Institute of Architects.<ref name="Swett2005">{{cite book|last1=Swett|first1=Richard N.|title=Leadership by Design: Creating an Architecture of Trust|date=2005|publisher=Greenway Communications|isbn=9780975565407|page=31|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DnTHVKElGs4C&pg=PA31|accessdate=26 October 2017|language=en}}</ref>
==Early life== Gardiner was born in 1825 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the second son of William Howard Gardiner (1797–1880) and Caroline Perkins (1800–1867). His father was a prominent Boston lawyer.<ref name="NEHPC1903"/>
His paternal grandfather was Rev. John Sylvester John Gardiner (1765–1830) and his maternal grandfather was slave-trader Thomas Handasyd Perkins, in 1823.<ref name="NEHPC1903"/>
==Career== Gardiner co-founded the American Society of Civil Engineers and Architects and served as its first vice president.<ref name="Engineers1895">{{cite book|last1=Engineers|first1=American Society of Civil|title=Year Book - American Society of Civil Engineers|date=1895|publisher=American Society of Civil Engineers.|page=133|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QOtKAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA133|accessdate=26 October 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Engineers1872">{{cite book|last1=Engineers|first1=American Society of Civil|title=Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers|date=1872|publisher=American Society of Civil Engineers.|page=495|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oRk_AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA495|accessdate=26 October 2017|language=en}}</ref> Five years later in 1857, he was one of the 13 founders, along with Richard Upjohn and Richard Morris Hunt, of the American Institute of Architects.<ref name="Swett2005"/><ref name="Architects1906">{{cite book|last1=Architects|first1=American Institute of|title=Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the American Institute of Architects|date=1906|publisher=Committee on Library and Publications|page=191|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qagWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA191|accessdate=26 October 2017|language=en}}</ref>
Gardiner was known for his debate with Henry C. Dudley over the issue of architectural competitions.<ref name="Kowsky2003">{{cite book|last1=Kowsky|first1=Francis R.|title=Country, Park and City: The Architecture and Life of Calvert Vaux|date=2003|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195171136|page=96|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J6zmCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA96|accessdate=26 October 2017|language=en}}</ref>
==Personal life== In 1849, he married Sophia Harrison Mifflin (1822–1889), the daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (née Davis) Mifflin, all of Philadelphia. Together, they lived in New Rochelle, New York and were the parents of five children, including:<ref name="NEHPC1903"/><ref name="encyclopedia">{{cite web|title=Evans, Elizabeth Glendower (1856–1937) - Dictionary definition of Evans, Elizabeth Glendower (1856–1937)|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/evans-elizabeth-glendower-1856-1937|website=www.encyclopedia.com|publisher=Encyclopedia.com|accessdate=26 October 2017|language=en}}</ref>
* William Howard Gardiner (1851–1906), married Helena Lawrence Baird (1852–1925) in 1873,<ref name="SRPhil1914">{{cite book|title=Social Register, Philadelphia|date=1914|publisher=Social Register Association|page=88|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FY9IAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA88|accessdate=26 October 2017|language=en}}</ref> with whom he had three children.<ref name="Keith1883">{{cite book|last1=Keith|first1=Charles Penrose|title=The Provincial Councillors of Pennsylvania: Who Held Office Between 1733-1776 and Those Earlier Councillors who Were Some Time Chief Magistrates of the Province, and Their Descendants|date=1883|publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com|isbn=9780806315294|page=253|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=acmyWWiA3pwC&pg=PA253|accessdate=26 October 2017|language=en}}</ref> In 1890, he married Tita Butler, daughter of Joseph Butler of Castle Rhebbin, in Kildare, Ireland, and granddaughter of the last Duke of Ormond and Lord de Courcy, of Kingsale.<ref name="Browning1911">{{cite book|last1=Browning|first1=Charles H.|title=Americans of Royal Descent: Collection of Genealogies Showing the Lineal Descent from Kings of Some American Families ...|date=1911|publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com|isbn=9780806300542|page=127|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eyik0rO0HlsC&pg=PA127|accessdate=26 October 2017|language=en}}</ref> * Eugenia Gardiner.<ref name="NEHPC1903"/><ref name="Boston1891">{{cite book|last1=Boston|first1=Museum of Fine Arts|title=Annual Report of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston|date=1891|publisher=Boston Museum of Fine Arts|page=28|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bek6AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA28|accessdate=26 October 2017|language=en}}</ref> * Edward Gardiner II (1854–1907),<ref name="EGObit1907">{{cite news|title=Edward Gardiner.|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9904E3D9103EE033A25756C0A9679D946697D6CF&legacy=true|accessdate=26 October 2017|work=The New York Times|date=5 November 1907}}</ref> a biologist who married Jane G. Hooper, daughter of Nathaniel Hooper, on April 6, 1895.<ref name="Cyclopaedia1910">{{cite book|title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time|date=1910|publisher=J. T. White Company|page=204|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nm9GAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA204|accessdate=26 October 2017|language=en}}</ref> * Elizabeth Gardiner (1856–1937), a prominent social reformer who married Glendower Evans (d. 1886), a Harvard Law School educated lawyer who entered the practice of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., in 1882.<ref name="NEHPC1903"/><ref name="harvard">{{cite web|title=Evans, Elizabeth Glendower, 1856-1937. Papers of Elizabeth Glendower Evans, 1859-1944 (inclusive), : A Finding Aid|url=http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00026|website=oasis.lib.harvard.edu|publisher=Harvard University Library|accessdate=26 October 2017}}</ref>
Gardiner died in Chicago, Illinois of a fall from his horse,<ref name="Simon1999">{{cite book|last1=Simon|first1=Linda|title=William James Remembered|date=1999|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|isbn=0803292627|page=58|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h6XPmSt89dAC&pg=PA58|accessdate=26 October 2017|language=en}}</ref> in 1859.<ref name="NEHPC1903">{{cite book|title=Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens of the State of Maine|date=1903|publisher=New England Historical Publishing Company|location=Boston|page=[https://archive.org/details/biographicalsket00newe/page/158 158]|url=https://archive.org/details/biographicalsket00newe|accessdate=26 October 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Stanton1997">{{cite book|last1=Stanton|first1=Phoebe B.|title=The Gothic Revival and American Church Architecture: An Episode in Taste, 1840-1856|date=1997|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=9780801856228|page=321|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9C18B5939n8C&pg=PA321|accessdate=26 October 2017|language=en}}</ref> After his early death, his family relocated to Brookline, Massachusetts with his father where they "grew up as poor relations of a very aristocratic family." Two years later, his widow moved the family to Boston where the children attended private schools.<ref name="harvard"/>
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