History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 718, Isabel Township
James Gardner was born in Isabel tp. in 1850, son to James and
Delia Gardner, natives of New York and Ohio respectively. In 1823 they
emigrated to sec. 34 of this township, where the subject of this sketch
now resides. He is a Republican. P. O., Havana. In 1874 he married
Martha E. Hukill, born in this township in 1852. They have one child
living and two dead. They have a good farm on sec. 34, and from their
residence is seen one of the grandest views of natural scenery in this
region of country. One can see into Schuyler, Cass and Mason counties,
looking over the Illinois river valley with its long and weird
Bands of bluish green
And silvery sheen.
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