{"id":234,"date":"2011-10-31T20:42:23","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T01:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea2\/?p=234"},"modified":"2011-11-06T15:04:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T21:04:55","slug":"goodspeed-biography-of-w-c-gardenhire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/goodspeed-biography-of-w-c-gardenhire\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodspeed Biography of W. C. Gardenhire"},"content":{"rendered":"

W. C. Gardenhire<\/strong>, of Dayton, Tenn., was born in Roane County, May 14, 1838, son of George W. and Polly (Bottom<\/strong>) Gardenhire, both natives of Roane County, Tenn., and both of Scotch descent.\u00a0 The father was born in 1796, and is now living in Rhea County.\u00a0 The mother was born in 1806, and died in Hamilton County, near Chattanooga.\u00a0 They were married in Roane County, and subsequently moved to Hamilton County.\u00a0 The father was a farmer, a slave trader before the war, and a Democrat in politics.\u00a0 W. C. Gardenhire, received a liberal education, and began life as a salesman, which business he followed two years.\u00a0 He then established a mercantile business of his own at Harrison, and on a boat on the Tennessee River, which he continued up to the breaking out of the late, war, when he served three years in teh Confederate Army.\u00a0 In 1866 he went to California and was engaged in the mining stock business in that State up to 1869, at which time he made a voyage to the South Sea Islands, visiting the Fijians and the Sandwichers, Australians and a number of others.\u00a0 He returned to California in 1871, bringing with him four native Fijians, and after exhibiting them in Woodward Garden, San Francisco, for some time at $150 a day, he sold them to P. T. Barnum for $20,000.\u00a0 He returned to Tennessee the same year on a visit, and in the spring of 1872 he went back to California, and was engaged in the mining stock business up to 1878.\u00a0 In the meantime (1876) he went to Arizona, and located the town of Safford, Graham County.\u00a0 In the early part of 1877 he went to New York City, and was one of the charter members of the American Mining and Stock Exchange.\u00a0 About this time Mr. Gardenhire was suffering with Bright’s disease, and he spent several months in visiting the celebrated springs in the United States with no improved symptoms.\u00a0 In 1879 he started on a voyage around the world.\u00a0 He visited England, India, Africa, etc., and came into port at San Francisco, Cal., in the spring of 1881.\u00a0 April 3, of the same year, he married Miss Julia Wiseman<\/strong>, a native of Los Angeles, Cal., born May 21, 1858, daughter of William C. and Annie R. Wiseman of California.\u00a0 He afterward went to Arkansas and tested the virtue of the Eureka Spring.\u00a0 In 1884 he had a survey made, and located the town of Dayton, and subsequently built a fine residence there, and was cured of Bright’s disease by drinking water at Dayton Spring.\u00a0 He has been very active in the erection of buildings, and in improving the town.\u00a0 He has been instrumental in erecting six brick stores, opera house, brick livery stable, stone bank (called Dayton City Bank), and numerous other dwellings.\u00a0 Our subject is a Democrat in politics and a man well-known and well respected by all who know him.\u00a0 After returning from the South Sea Islands, he wrote a history of Fiji and the Fijians, which had a good sale.<\/p>\n

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W. C. Gardenhire, of Dayton, Tenn., was born in Roane County, May 14, 1838, son of George W. and Polly (Bottom) Gardenhire, both natives of Roane County, Tenn., and both of Scotch descent.\u00a0 The father was born in 1796, and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[68,67,69],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goodspeed","tag-bottom","tag-gardenhire","tag-wiseman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/rhea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}