The Days of a Man 1885 



time of her marriage to Dr. Nathaniel Lyon Gardner, 

 assistant professor of Botany in the University of 

 California, she was head of the department of His- 

 tory in the well-known Polytechnic High School of 

 Los Angeles. 



Harold, who graduated in Chemistry, was for 

 several years employed in various smelters in Mexico 

 and Central America, where he made a good record. 

 Recently, impelled partly by necessity due to dis- 

 turbed conditions in the mining industry but largely 

 from a desire to get back to the soil, he has taken 

 up the business of orchardist in Oregon. Thora's 

 span of life was very brief, as she died about a year 

 after her mother. 



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