Mining Engineer
Centurion, 1877–1912
Born 6 May 1842 in Troy, New York
Died 10 September 1912 in Northeast Harbor, Maine
Buried Albany Rural Cemetery
, Menands, New York
Proposed by Clarence King and Francis A. Stout
Elected 5 May 1877 at age thirty-four
Proposer of:
Century Memorial
The death of our old friend James Terry Gardiner came as a deep sorrow to us. He was a familiar and loved figure; a man whose conversation and vivid narratives of a life with its full share of perils and adventures, we all delighted in. He served several terms on our Committee of Admissions, and reliance was placed on his excellent judgment in club matters. As we all know, he was a distinguished civil and mining engineer, doing brilliant work at the outset with his life-long friend Clarence King upon geological surveys of the Yosemite Valley and Arizona, and afterwards in the United States Geological Survey. Still later he was director of the New York State Survey, and became prominent in the management of coal companies. His wife, a daughter of Bishop Doane, died last July, and the sorrow which overwhelmed our friend hastened his death some six weeks later. Peace to his grieving spirit.
Henry Osborn Taylor
1913 Century Association Yearbook
