Rev. George Augustus Gardner was the son of Henry Wemple and Angeline (Bort) Gardner. Julia (Dickerson) Gardner was his 1st wife. They were married before 1890. Julia died in 1898. Anja (Vickers) Gardner was his 2nd wife. They were married about 1899. Anja died July 25, 1961. Rev. Gardner was a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church: L 1896 Genesee (Western New York/now Upper New York) Conference 1903 F 1905.
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1925, Pgs. 362-364.
The Paul Vickers Gardner Glass Center within the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. The town of Alfred is located 15 miles from Canisteo, where Paul's mother Angeline was a public school teacher.....
The New York State College of Ceramics, a state-supported unit of the State University of New York and a college of Alfred University, was established by an act of the New York State legislature in 1900 for the purpose of advancing both the art and the science of ceramics.6
PAUL GARDNER DIES AT 85
By Claudia Levy April 13, 1994
Paul Vickers Gardner, 85, a leading authority on glass and ceramics who was the first glass curator at the Smithsonian Institution, died of a heart attack April 1 at Georgetown University Hospital. He was stricken at the Washington National Cathedral.
Dr. Gardner, who retired in 1977 as curator of the division of ceramics and glass of the National Museum of American History, was associated with the Smithsonian for more than 25 years. He brought contemporary artwork in glass into the Smithsonian collections and helped promote the work of young artists of the modern American studio glass movement. That movement was sparked in the early 1960s by the development of studio-scale glass furnaces. Dr. Gardner, a former designer at the Steuben and Corning Glass factories in upstate New York, was regarded as a cultural link to the factory-produced art glass artwork of the past. As a young man, he designed domestic products such as Pyrex ovenware and Charleroi tableware and worked as an assistant to Frederick Carder, a founder of Steuben Glass and later art director of Corning Glass. The two men collaborated on architectural glass as well as artworks. Dr. Gardner later wrote several books about glass, including Carder's work.
Dr. Gardner, a resident of Washington since the early 1950s, was a native of Castile, N.Y. He graduated from Alfred University, which recently named its glass technology education center in his honor. He received an honorary doctorate from the university, which is in Alfred, N.Y. Dr. Gardner served in the Navy during World War II. He attended the University of Miami briefly after the war and then joined the National Collection of Fine Arts in Washington. He worked to acquire 20th-century glass, which at the time was not was not well represented in the Smithsonian collection. After he retired, Dr. Gardner lectured about glass and was president of the Creative Glass Center of America at the Wheaton Village historical complex near Millersville, N.J., and a consultant to the Smithsonian.
He was a member of the Cosmos Club and of the building committee of the Washington National Cathedral, a fellow of the Corning Museum of Glass, a trustee of Alfred University and a member of the American Ceramics Circle, the American Guild of Organists, the Glass Art Society and the National Early American Glass Club.
He leaves no immediate survivors.
Paul Gardner, 85, Smithsonian Curator And Expert on Glass
By RICHARD D. LYONS
Published: April 14, 1994 New York Times
Paul V. Gardner, an international expert on ceramics and glass who for almost 30 years was the curator of those fields at the Smithsonian Institution, died on Friday. Mr. Gardner, who lived in Washington, was 85. He collapsed while attending Good Friday services at the Washington National Cathedral, to which he was a consultant on stained glass. He died at the Georgetown University Hospital.
In 1948 Mr. Gardner became the Smithsonian's first curator of ceramics and glass, working in the National Collection of Fine Arts. Later he organized and became the curator-in-charge of the Smithsonian's division of ceramics and glass in the Museum of History and Technology. He retired in 1977. Mr. Gardner's interest in glass began while he was a student in the school of ceramics at Alfred University. While there, he became an assistant to Frederick Carder, the founder of the Steuben Glass Works in Corning, N.Y., who later was the art director of Corning Glass.
In January the ceramics school, which is now part of the state university system, opened its Paul Vickers Gardner Glass Center, created to support education in glass art and glass technology. After graduation in 1930 with a degree in ceramic art, Mr. Gardner continued with the Steuben company, designing Pyrex ovenware and glass architectural details for the Empire State and the RCA Buildings in Manhattan. He served four years in the Navy as a gunnery instructor.
Mr. Gardner was the author of many articles about ceramics and glass as well as "The Glass of Frederick Carder" (1971).
He is survived by a niece, Bernita Howard of Seattle.
A memorial service will be held locally and in the Washington, D.C. area for Dr. Paul Vickers Gardner, a 1930 graduate of the Alfred University College of Ceramics and a former member of the Alfred University Board of Trustees and curator emeritus and consultant at the Smithsonian Institution.
Gardner died on Good Friday (April 1, 1994). He was 95.
On May 14 at 2 p.m. there will be a service at the First Methodist Church, 37 Greenwood Street in Canisteo, the Rev. Robert Coppings officiating. Interment will take place in Oakwood Cemetery, Nunda.
Born Aug. 31, 1908 in Castile to the Rev. George and Anna Vickers Garnder. Gardner was a graduate of the former Canisteo Academy in Canisteo.
Gardner is survived by his niece, Bernita Howard of Seattle, Washington and her daughter, Melissa Howard, also of Seattle.
Doris C. Gardner, 86, of 38 Chestnut St., passed away Saturday (March 13, 2010) at the Wellsville Manor.
Born in North Hornell, Nov. 19, 1923, she was the daughter of Dr. Kenneth and Florence Skillman Comfort. She was a graduate of Canisteo Central School, and graduated Cum Laude from Alfred University. She taught business in several area schools prior to opening Gardners Clothing Store in Canisteo in 1954, which she and her husband, Barney Gardner, operated until 1993. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Canisteo, The American Association of University Women and the Alfred Alumni Association.
She was predeceased by her parents and her husband, Barney Gardner in 1995. She is survived by her son, Kenneth (Cindy) Gardner of Canisteo and granddaughter, Jessica Thompson of Greer, S.C.
Honoring Doris wishes, there will be no calling hours. Family and friends are invited to attend a memorial service at 7 p.m. Wednesday evening at the First United Methodist Church of Canisteo. Rev. Robert Dean will officiate. Burial will be in Bath National Cemetery.