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The Lardner's were members of the London middle class whose fortune was made by their alliance with the Penn family through the marriage of Hannah Lardner and Richard Penn, the youngest of William Penn's three sons. Lynford Lardner, Hannah's brother, emigrated to Pennsylvania to act as an attorney for the Penn's and became one of the 'movers & shakers' of Philadelphia society. The author, Ring Lardner, is also a descendent of this family.
The Lardner name is ancient with the earliest identified bearer being a David Lardiner who lived during the 12th century. He held one serjeantry and was keeper of the gaol [jail] of the Forest and Seizer of the Cattle which are taken for the Kings debts - from "History and Antecedents of the City of York," 1785. The surname is derived from the old French lardiner, an officer or steward in charge of a larder. It may also mean the officer who superintended the pannage of hogs in the forest; the title of an honorary office.
(18) Thomas Lardner (c1640)There is disagreement about Lynford Lardner's grandfather. Some say he was John Lardner, born in England, probably around 1640, who married Elizabeth Ferrars. This John's father was was Ephraim Lardner, from Gloucestershire.
I find it more significant that, from a "Calendar of Marriage Allegations, 1660-1700," Thomas Lardner and Elizabeth Lynford were married on 18 February 1677/8 in London. If correct, this would help explain the oddity of the Lynford given name so prevalent in the family below. A Thomas and Elizabeth Lardner were also enumerated amongst "London Inhabitants within the Walls 1695," living in the parish of St Benet Gracechurch [note that Dr. John Lardner, below, was supposed to be a physician of Gracechurch street]. Listed with them were the following children: Anne, Benjamin, Christopher, Elizabeth, James, and Mary [John would have been on his own by then]. On 18 June 1703 the will of a Thomas Lardner, Apothecary of London, was signed [or proved, I'm not sure which].
There are several other wills on interest in the British Archive database:
20 November 1734 as Thomas Lardner, Apothecary of Cambridge.
27 June 1738 as John Lardner, Apothecary of Harting, Sussex.
7 December 1737 as John Lardner, Surgeon of Limehouse, Middlesex [near Eastcheap].
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Gracechurch street is a major road running through London. It begins as Bishopsgate road, changing into Gracechurch street as it enters Eastcheap. It ends at the Thames, at the entrance to London Bridge. The church that defines the parish was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. Before this time there had been over a hundred church spires and towers dominating the City of London skyline. Ninety-seven of these were parish churches that fell within the walls of the city and many of these churches and parishes were extremely small. The Great Fire destroyed eighty-nine churches, including St Benedict Gracechurch. It was rebuilt by Christopher Wren, but demolished in 1867. |
He was born in about 1670 in London, England. If he was truly the son of Thomas Lardner, above, his birth would be toward the end of the 1670's rather than their beginning. According to a biography of Richard Penn, John's son-in-law, he was a physician of Gracechurch Street, London, and Woodford, Epping Forest, Sussex. His wife was supposedly a Winstanley, though I think her name was actually Hannah Moore. This could be possible if we assume Hannah's mother was a Winstanley, that is, she was of the Winstanley's. John married her in about 1700, according to the Penn biography. A John Lardner married Hannah Morre in 1693/4. He was also listed in "London Inhabitants within the Walls 1695," living in St Benet Gracechurch parish, as John Lardner and wife, Hannah. They had no children at the time. The parish records of St. Dionis Backchurch, London, indicate that John Lardner, an apothecary, and Hannah, his wife, had their son, Edward, baptized on 15 April 1701. St. Dionis is located in St. Botolph's parish, Aldgate, London.
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The parish of St. Botolph Without Aldgate was part in the City of London and part in the County of Middlesex, the East Smithfield Liberty. It extends from Aldgate High Street to the junction of Fenchurch Street and Leadenhall Street and gets its name as one of the eight gates to the walled City of London. |
Physicians, apothecary's, and surgeons were three distinct areas of practice at the time, all competitive, but physician was the more elevated profession. Richard Penn's family may have glamourized their in-law's profession to diminish the fact that their son had married beneath him. Said to be "a physcian of some means who lost most of his money when the South Sea Bubble crashed in 1720-1721." It is possible that he was a physician who kept an apothecary shop. John Lardner died before 1728 in London. A John Lardner, Apothecary of London, signed his will [or it was proved] on 1 December 1725.
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Was she named for her mother, Hannah Moore? The daughter of John Lardner, a physician of Gracechurch street, she married Richard Penn, one of three sons of William Penn, the founder of the Pennsylvania colony. Richard's brothers were said to believe he had married too early and, perhaps, beneath him. Richard was never respected by his elder brothers. Richard and Hannah's son, John, born in 1729, afterwards became, in 1763, the last Proprietary Governor of Pennsylvania. At various times his brother, Richard, was Lieutenant Governor of the colony.
(20) Lynford Lardner (1715)The third son of John Lardner. Perhaps named for his grandmother's family. He was born on 18 July 1715 in England. "Initially it was supposed Lynford would become a clergyman in the Church of England, but his father's financial loss forced the apprenticeship of Lynford to Thomas and Richard Penn, who were at that time in the wool industry. Richard Penn the elder was married to young Lynford's sister Hannah so the connection was a natural one. After his move to the English countryside in 1732, young Lardner quickly became fond of sport and leisure and of the life of an English gentleman." - University of Pennsylvania Archives.
He emigrated to the Pennsylvania colony in 1740 [or perhaps as early as 1730]. He quickly established himself in the Proprietary Land Office. He, along with James Steel and Richard Peters, were appointed agents of the proprietary estates of John, Thomas and Richard Penn. He was the Receiver General [of rents, etc] of Pennsylvania from 1742 to 1752. "Although he tried to perform his duties as required, Lardner never enjoyed the job and was not very good at it. As a result he resigned in 1752, and entered into industry, a pursuit which gave him time to resume hunting and fishing. In 1755 he was appointed to the Governor's Council, and then in 1771 was made Comptroller of Customs by his nephew John Penn." He was commissioned Keeper of the Great Seal of the Province of Pennsylvania on 12 December 1746 and maintained that post until March 1753.
Lynford owned a tract of land between Cedar and Jordan creeks on which, in about 1740, he erected a hunting lodge that he named Grouse Hall. Painted white, is became known as White Hall and gave that name to the local township.
In the spring of 1740 he was a leader of a 'dance assembly' that was satirized by Benjamin Franklin in his newspaper. Franklin's reporting was attacked by the promotors of the assembly, John Inglis, Lynford Lardner, John Wallace, and John Swift, but Richard Peters, now Secretary of the Council, was evidently the leading spokesman for the gentlemen. From Scharf and Westcott, History of Philadelphia, 2:864; and 2 May. Lynford promoted other assemblies in later years.
Lynford, despite this poor start, later became a friend of Benjamin Franklin. On 12 July 1742 Benjamin Franklin, with William Peters, Conrad Weiser, and Lynford Lardner, witnessed Lingahonoa's agreement and signature in Philadelphia to Sasoonan's and other Schuylkill Indians' sale of lands a decade earlier, on 7 September 1732 - from: Pennsylvania Archives series 1, 1:344-46. As early as 1745 Lynford was a director of Benjamin Franklin's Library Company, a private lending library. In 1746 he was again a director, along with Benjamin Franklin, Philip Syng, Samuel Morris, John Mifflin, Samuel Rhoads, Evan Morgan, John Sober, William Parsons, Joseph Stretch, & William Coleman, Treasurer. In that same year he was appointed to "draw out a Catalogue of all the Books added to the Library," which he provided to Franklin for printing.
Lynford was also one of the original members of the Associators, Benjamin Franklin's colonial militia. From "Officers of the Associated Regiment of Foot of Philadelphia, 29 December 1747" - Lieut Lyndford Lardner. Later, following the defeat of General Braddock forces near present-day Pittsburgh during the French & Indian War, he was Lieutenant of cavalry under Captain Edward Jones. From "Independent Troop of Horse, Philadelphia, 1756" - Lieut Lynford Lardner.
He married Elizabeth Branson on 27 October 1749 in Christ Church, Philadelphia. She was born in 1732 in Sunning, Berkshire, England, the daughter of Philadelphia merchant William Branson. In the same year as his first marriage his portrait, which now hangs in a private collection, was painted by John Hesselius. Lynford and Katherine had seven children together. Katherine died on 26 August 1761 in Philadelphia.
Lynford subsequently married Catherine Lawrence in May 1766. She was the daughter of the Thomas Lawrence who was five times mayor of Philadelphia.
His name was among those Governor Richard Penn sent to the Assembly of those he had selected for justices of the county courts and justices of the peace. The list included Benjamin Chew, Thomas Cadwalader, James Tilghman, and Edward Shippen, Jr., all prominent patriots in the run-up to the Revolution.
His home on the Somerset banks of the Delaware river, which he built in 1760, still stands today. From the caption from Moses King's "Philadelphia and Notable Philadelphians," New York, Blanchard Press, Isaac H. Blanchard Co., 1901., p. 101:
"Somerset," with a wide river-front, at Tacony, on the banks of Delaware "From painting by Edmund D. Lewis, owned by John Lardner's grandson, James Lawrence Lardner, Jr. The Colonial home of Receiver-General Lynford Lardner, member of the Provincial Council, and brother-in-law of Richard Penn, one of the proprietors and Governors-in-Chief. Four generations of Lardners lived here during 150 years. Here, too, lived Lynford Lardner's son, Cornet John Lardner, of the First Troop, Phil. City Cavalry, who served at Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine and Germantown."
In 1762 Lardner was elected a trustee of the College and Academy of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania), serving until his death in 1774.
In 1763 Thomas and Richard Penn, proprietors of the Pennsylvania colony appointed a commission, known to history at the Mason-Dixon commission, to resolve the border dispute between Pennsylvania and Maryland. The commissioners included Benjamin Chew and Lynford Lardner. They hired Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, of England, to survey the border.
As early as 1764 Lynford was made a member of the Proprietor's and Governor's Council, keeping this post until at least 1773.
Lynford died on 6 October 1774 and was buried in Philadelphia's Christ Church cemetery. From Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania Wills, 1682-1819:
Lynford Lardner, Philadelphia, Esquire, Will signed 13 September 1774. His will was proved on 25 October 1774. Wife: Katherine. Executors: Katherine Lardner and son John. Children: Wm., Frances, Hannah, John and James. Brother: James [he stayed in London]. Servant: Rebecca Miller.
(21) John Lardner (1752)TO BE SOLD Pursuant to the last Will and Testament of Lynford Lardner, Esq., deceased, one equal and undivided fourth part of the Andover Iron-works, in the counties of Sussex and Morris, in the province of New-Jersey, to which belong between 11 and 12 thousand acres of land; the ore is esteemed of the best quality of any in America, and the mine bank situated at a mile's distance from the furnace is thought to be inexhaustible. The iron has been proved from experiments, made both in England and America, to be proper for every use to which iron can be converted, and equal to the Swedish for making of steel. The furnace and forge lie at the distance of 7 miles from each other, and the mansion-house and other buildings are elegant and commodious; the situation is convenient for either the Philadelphia or New-York markets. For terms, apply toJOHN LARDNER, in Philadelphia
He was born on 6 September 1752. He served in the Revolutionary War, first as a Private from 1775 to 1779, then as a Cornet, the lowest officer rank in the cavalry, from 1779 to 1783, in the Philadelphia Troop of Light Horse under Captain Samuel Morris, the same unit his brother, Lynford, was later in. His troop were bodyguards to General Washington during the Revolutionary War. John fought at the battles of Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine and Germantown. It is interesting that John was a Patriot considering how closely aligned his father had been with Proprietary/Loyalist interests.
John also served in the post-Revolutionary period. From the "Return of the First Troop of Light Horse of the Militia of the City of Philadelphia, Commanded by Capt. John Dunlap, 1794" : John Lardner & Will. Lardner.
He married Margaret Salter on 24 December 1789. Their children were Elizabeth, Lynford, Richard Penn, John Saltar, William Bransom, John, Lawrence Saltar, James Lawrence, Henry, Edward, and Alexander. He resided in the Lynford Lardner mansion of 1760. His will was proved on 5 March 1825.
Lardner, John. Philadelphia County.(22) Lynford Lardner (1792)
Signed: May 31, 1824. Proved: March 5, 1825. 8.402.
Wife: Margaret Lardner.
Children: Elizabeth, Lynford, Richard Penn, John, Lawrence Saltar, James, who has lately taken the addition of Lawrence thereto, Henry, Edward, Alexander Lardner.
Exec: Wife: Margaret Lardner. Sons: Lynford, Richard Penn, John, Lawrence Saltar Lardner [Note: James Lawrence was at sea in the Navy at this time].
Wit: Francis Flitcraft, William Kinsey, Benjamin L. Walton
He was born on 12 June 1792 in Somerset, Pennsylvania and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1811. His silhouette was taken, as was those of all the graduating class, by Charles Willson Peale. He was a volunteer during the War of 1812. From 1825 to 1827 he was captain of the Light-Horse, also known as the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry. He married Elizabeth Wilmer [as you'll see below, there are too many Wilmers here]. At the time of the 1830 census he was living in Philadelphia with a woman 20 to 30 years old and a girl 15 to 20 years old. In 1832 he was a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives. He died on 22 June 1834.
(22) Richard Penn Lardner (1796)He was born on 3 November 1797. Clearly named for his illustrious kin, the son of William Penn. He married Anna Boswell Tennant on 12 February 1824 in Philadelphia. Their son was William Miller Lardner, who was born in 1825 in Philadelphia. Richard later married Anna Gibbon, the daughter of John Heysham Gibbon and Catherine Lardner, his cousin. She was born in 1833, or 37 years his junior [the dirty old man]. Her step-son was her elder! They had no children.
Richard Penn was an officer in the Confederate Army. He died on 18 May 1882. There is a Richard Penn Lardner in the New York Society 'Blue Book' of 1930 and another who graduated from Gettysburg College in 1964. They may be Richard's descendents, but since this family shared so many given names its hard to be sure [Note: multiple Lynford's, James Lawrence's, and Ringgold's, many living at the same time.].
(22) Lawrence Saltar Lardner (1802)He was born on 20 November 1802 in Philadelphia. His twin brother was James Lawrence Lardner. He married Mary Breck on 18 October 18 1832. Their children were: Hannah, George Breck, Catherine Breck, Elizabeth, Richard, Alexander, and Lucy. He died on 3 March 1873 in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.
(23) Alexander LardnerHe married Sarah A. Crisler on 24 December 1873 in Philadelphia. They had four children: James Lawrence, Lloyd, Jennie, and Mildred. Alexander married another Sarah on 10 October 1894 after the first had died on 2 September 1892.
(22) Admiral James Lawrence Lardner (1802)
He was born on 20 November 1802 in Philadelphia. His twin brother was Lawrence Saltar Lardner. He was warranted a Midshipman on 10 May 1820. Lardner served in the Pacific squadron under Commodore Stewart from 1821 to 1824. He joined the Mediterranean squadron in 1825 after escorting General Lafayette back to France in BRANDYWINE back to France. He was commissioned a Lieutenant on 17 May 1828 and served as navigating officer of the VINCENNES on a trip around the world, from 1828 to 1830. He commanded the receiving ship at the Philadelphia Navy Yard from 1845 to 1848, then commanded the brig PORPOISE off the coast of Africa from 1850 1853, and was promoted to Commander on 17 May 17 1851. He then served as Fleet Captain of the West India squadron from 1855 to 1861.
In September 1861 Lardner, while in command of the frigate SUSQUEHANNA on the North Atlantic blockading squadron, took a pertinent part in the Battle of Port Royal and the capture of Forts Walker and Beauregard. He was commended for gallantry in action by Rear Admiral DuPont and his name was sent to Congress for a vote of thanks by President Lincoln. The Senate, however, failed to confirm the action. In May 1862, he assumed command of the East Gulf Blockading Squadron and was promoted to Commodore on 16 July 1862. From May 1863 to October 1864, Lardner commanded the West India Squadron under the flag of a Rear Admiral. After his retirement on 20 November 1864 he was appointed Rear Admiral on 25 July 1866. He served on special duty with various boards until 1869 when he was appointed Governor of the Naval Asylum, Philadelphia. He held this post until 1871. He married Maragret Wilmer. Their children were James [I suspect he died young], Anne, Lynford, Margaret and Ellen. Upon her death he married Ellen Wilmer, presumably her sister. Their children were Ringgold and James Lawerence. Rear Admiral Lardner died 12 April 1881 in Philadelphia. Two U.S. Navy Destroyers have been named for him.
(23) Lynford Lardner (1839)He was born on 23 August 1839 in Philadelphia. He married Ella Swaltzer [Switzer, Swietzer] in 1868 in Philadlephia. He was the son of James's first wife. He had one child, a daughter, Margaret, born in December 1869, in Philadelphia. He was a clerk. I have a Lynford Lardner who died in 1882 in Dutch Flat, California.
(23) Ringgold W. Lardner (1854)The son of James' second wife, Ellen, he was born in about 1854 in Philadelphia. This was not the author, Ring Lardner, who is listed below, though he may be the inspiration for the author's naming. I suspect he was named after a family friend. Edward Ringgold was a resident of Spring Garden, Ward 3, of Philadelphia in the 1840 census and John Ringgold was a resident of Pine Ward, Philadelphia in the 1850 census.
(23) James Lawrence Lardner Jr. (1857)The son of James' second wife, Ellen, he was born in Philadelphia in about 1857. He resided in the Lynford Lardner mansion of 1760. The house had belonged to John Lardner, his grandfather, and probably passed through his uncles before coming to his father. His uncle Lynford had died in 1834 and Richard Penn had moved to North Carolina, serving in the Confederate Army. James' father died in 1881. From "1891 Rittenhouse Club Members: Philadelphia County, Philadelphia" : James. L. Lardner. From "Descendants of Veterans of the War of 1812," listed in the 1903 Membership Roll of the Pennsylvania Society of the War of 1812 : Elected in 1898, James Lawrence Lardner, 121 South Twenty-second Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. From the "Decennial Register of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution 1888-1898" : James Lawrence Lardner of Philadelphia, elected to membership on 14 March 1892, the grandson of Cornet John Lardner.
(22) Henry Lardner (1804)He was born in February 1804 in Philadelphia. He married Mary Ann Keya and then moved to Michigan, like his cousin, William Lardner Jr., below. He died in Michigan on 9 August 1862.
(23) Henry Lardner Jr. (1839)He was born on 23 October 1839 in Philadelphia and moved to Michigan with his father. He married Lena Bogardus Phillips. Their children were William, Henry Jr., Lena, Reginald (Rex), Anna and Ringgold. Henry was Vice President of the First National Bank. He died in Niles, Michigan.
(24) Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (1885)
The famous auther, Ring Lardner. He was born on 6 March 1885 in Niles, Berrien county, Michigan. His name was derived from the last name of a family friend. A great baseball sportswriter, he is mainly remembered as a writer of short stories, adept at catching regionalisms. He also wrote at least a dozen plays. He married Ellis Abbott on 28 June 1911 in Elkhart, Indiana. His sons were John, Jim, Ring Jr., and David. All inherited his talent for writing. He died on 27 September 1933 in Easthampton, Long Island, New York.
Also an author, sportswriter [legendary to some], war correspondent, and screenwriter, he co-wrote the classic story of baseball, "You Know Me Al," with his father. At one point a writer for Newsweek magazine. He died in March 1960.
He was born on 18 May 1914 in Chicago, Illinois. A recognized authority on the game of bridge and war correspondent covering the Spanish Civil War. After a period of reporting on the war he enlisted in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, a voluntary unit aiding the Republican forces against Franco. By 23 September 1938 he was dead. His brother, Ring Jr., later wrote a book about the Brigade.
(25) Ring W. Lardner Jr. (1915)
He was born on 19 August 1915 in Chicago, the third of four sons. He attended Phillips Academy, Andover, and Princeton, though he never graduated. After trips to Germany and Soviet Russia, where he was enrolled in the University of Moscow, he began work in the David O. Selznick publicity department. In 1936 he became a member of the Communist Party. His first screen credit was earned for rewriting the ending of A STAR IS BORN, with Janet Gaynor. He won an Academy Award as a screenwriter in 1942 for WOMAN OF THE YEAR, with Katherine Hepburn and Spenser Tracy. In 1947 he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee and refused the answer their questions. He spent 10 months in prison for contempt of Congress. Blacklisted from 1948 to 1965. While he secretly works on other films, under the pseudonym Philip Rush, his next film credit was not until THE CINCINNATI KID, with Steve McQueen, for which he won his second Academy Award. He then won the Golden Globe for M*A*S*H. Other titles included SEMI-TOUGH, THE GREATEST, THE CARDINAL (uncredited), A BREATH OF SCANDAL (uncredited), ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (TV series, uncredited), FOREVER AMBER, LAURA (uncredited). He also wrote a history of his family, "The Lardners My Family Remembered." He died on 31 October 2000 in Manhattan.
His son, (26) James Lardner, is a writer (and former policeman). He is the co-author, with Tom Reppetto, of "NYPD: The Inside Story of New York's Legendary Police Department." He has also been a staff writer for the New York and U.S. News & World Report.
(25) David E. Lardner (1919)A movie and night club reviewer and an occassional 'reporter at large' for the New Yorker. A war correspondent, he died in surgery on occupied German soil in 1944, the victim of a mine explosion.
(21) William Lardner (1758)He was born on 8 December 1758 in Philadelphia. He married Ann Shepard on 19 April 1792. She was the daughter of Jacob Shepard, a merchant of New Bern, Carteret county, North Carolina and one of the county's representatives in the Assembly. Ann was born in about 1773 in Newberry, North Carolina. Ann's sister, Hannah, married Captain Charles Biddle of Philadelphia, a Revolutionary War privateer. I don't know why or how the Shepard family married so prominently into these Philadelphia family's, and later with Lardner Gibbon.
William and Ann had eleven children, including William, Frances, Sarah, James, Hannah, Catherine, Margaret, Ann, Elizabeth Branson, Lynford, and James Biddle [note the Biddle connection also seen with the Gibbon family and the Shepard family, above].
Ann died on 7 May 1811 in Holmesburg, Philadelphia. Willliam subsequently married Susan Elliott. William served in the both the Revolutinary and post-Revolutionary period militia. From the "Return of the First Troop of Light Horse of the Militia of the City of Philadelphia, Commanded by Capt. John Dunlap, 1794" : John Lardner & Will. Lardner. William died on 7 September 1827 in Philadelphia and was buried in Christ Church cemetary in Philadelphia.
Note that Lardner Gibbon married Alice Shepard whose parents were from North Carolina. Since Lardner's grandmother was a Shepard, that would make Alice what kind of cousin?
(22) Frances Lardner (c1793)(22) Sarah Lardner (c1794)
(22) James Lardner (1797)
He was born on 12 October 1797.
(22) Hannah Lardner (c1797)(22) Catherine Lardner (1799)
She was born on 21 [31] March 1799 in Holmesburg, Philadelphia. She married John Heysham Gibbon in 1819. She died on 20 December 1874 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
(22) Margaret Lardner (c1801)(22) Ann Lardner (c1802/3)
(22) Elizabeth Branson Lardner
(22) William Lardner Jr. (1801)
He was born on 3 July 1804 or he was born in 1801 in Philadelphia. He moved to Michigan and married Julia Ann Lewis on 9 July 1824 [24 June 1836?]. At some point they lived in Michigan. Their children were William Shepard, Margaret, John and Frances. William died on 11 August 1878 in Niles, Michigan [or died 14 August 1870]. An account of the family bible can be found at Lardner Family Bible, part of the larger "Lardnermania" site, dedicated to the works of Ring Lardner.
(23) William Shepard Lardner (c1825)He was born in Niles, Michigan. He married Mary Foster Jones of Pennsylvania. They lived in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.
(24) William Foster LardnerHe lived in Oconomowoc, Waukesha county, Wisconisin at the time of the 1880 census.
(24) Lynford Lardner Sr. (1880)He was born on 26 December 1880 in Wisconsin. He married Janie Bedford Glover in 1908. They lived in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. He died in 1941.
(25) Lynford Lardner Jr. (1915)He was born in on 22 February 1915 in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. He married Lucille Noth in 1948. He was one of the founders of the law firm Foley & Lardner LLP, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was also President of the USGA from 1972 to 1973. He died in October 1974 in Wisconsin.
(22) Catherine Lardner (1799)She was born on 21 March 1799 in Holmesburg, Philadelphia. She married John Heysham Gibbon in 1819. She died on 20 December 1874 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
(22) Lynford Lardner (1808)He was born on 12 May 1808 in Pennsylvania. He married Sarah Keegan Moore on 14 July 1845 in Berrien, Michigan. At the time of the 1850 census he was a farmer, living in Cass county, Michigan. He had a daughter, Elizabeth A. Lardner, aged 1.
In 1880 he was 73 years old, living in Placer county, California with his wife, Sarah K., 62, and son, Edward, below. Lynford died on 12 October 1882 in Auburn, Placer county, California.
(23) Edward Lardner (1862)He was born in Michigan. He was 18 years old and living with his parents at the time of the 1880 census.
(22) James Biddle Lardner (1808)Lynford's twin, he was born on 12 May 1808 in Philadelphia. Jon Holland of Dallas, Texas provided most of the information that follows. James joined the U.S. Navy in 1822 at the age of fourteen. This was the usual age to become a midshipman.
The Navy was important to the Lardner family via their connection with the Biddle Family. Nicholas Biddle, a revolutionary war naval hero, and James Biddle, a distinguished naval officer of the Federalist period, were uncles via Hannah Shepard's marriage to Charles Biddle, their brother. Commodore James Biddle, Charles' son, would have been a second cousin and was a serving officer at the time James Biddle Lardner joined. He too had been a hero, commanding the sloop HORNET in the War of 1812. Edward Biddle, the Commodore's brother, had died aboard the USS PRESIDENT in the West Indies during his first voyage; of a "tropical disease?" See also the career of Jame Biddle Lardner's cousin, James Lawrence Lardner, above, who would have joined the Navy about 6 years earlier than James.
James died on 8 March 1829 on "an unknown shore" due to a tropical disease. There is a gravestone for James Biddle Lardner in St. Michael's Cemetery, Pensacola. The stone indicates that he is not actually interred there. Where did he die?
"IN MEMORY OFOn the reverse of the stone is,
JAMES BIDDLE LARDNER
of the UNITED STATES Navy
Born in the County of Philadelphia
PENNSYLVANIA
He died on the eighth of March 1829
In the 21st year of his age."
"At the age of fourteen years
He left the shelter of his father's house
And the delights of home
For the toilsome and adventurous
Service of the Navy:
Participating in the dangers
And sharing largely the ills of a
sickly Climate.
He became the victim of disease
Just at the dawn of honourable usefulness.
This Stone
Is placed as a mark.
Where rest his remains on a distance shore
And the last tribute of affection
To a much loved brother."
The church, which dates from at least 1550, was located at the corner of Fenchurch and Lime streets in London. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666 and rebuilt in 1674 by Christopher Wren. It was commonly called Dionis Back Church because it stood back from the forepart of the Street. It was dedicated to St. Dennis or Dionysius, the Areopagite, who suffered Martyredom in France by being beheaded under the rule of the Roman Empereor Dioclesian, and therefore he is made the Champion or Patron of that Nation. The church was demolished in 1879.