minister.   In 1840 Mr. Gardner and family moved to East Marshfield, now Marshfield Hills.   In 1849 he bought the house in Littletown, now Sea View, where he lived fifty years.   He became a shoe manufacturer, giving employment to many men and women of the town.
   The first sewing machine used in the town was used in his shoe factory.   Later in life Mr. Gardner gave up the shoe business and carried on quite an extensive wood and lumber business.
   Mr. Gardner took a very active interest in politics, and was a Republican from the organization of the party.   In 1855 he was elected to represent the town in the Legislature.   At the age of 84 his political zeal was unabated, and he went to Boston as a delegate to a Republican convention.   In December, 1896, he fell on the ice and broke his hip.   He lived till 1899, for most of the time confined to the house and cared for by his two daughters.   His wife died 1895.

   The one son, the seventh:    I. Stephen Gardner, and the last, was born at Ea. Marshfield.   In 1862 he joined the 43d Regiment, M. V., and d. in Newbern, N. C., of typhoid fever the next year.   The "Nelson Gardner Sons of Veterans" was named for (Stephen) Nelson Gardner, who died in the war as above.
   II. Sophia, was b. in So. Scituate, and mar. Amos Billings of Maine.   He served in the 24th Maine Regiment; d. and was buried on an island in the Mississippi river in 1863.   After the death of her husband Mrs. Billings taught school in So. Scituate and Hanover.   After several years she married John Hayward of So. Braintree.   Neither of them is now living.
   III. Sarah M., b. in So. Scituate.   Mar. Joseph Sherman of Boston.   They have both passed on.   Had 2 children, a son and daughter, both living in Marshfield.   1,