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T. D. GARDNER, assistant cashier People’s bank, McKeesport, was born in that city, March 10, 1857, a son of Fred J. and Ellen (Hughes) Gardner. His father was a native of Manchester, England, and his mother of Dublin, Ireland. They came to America early in the ‘50’s and located in Pittsburgh, and soon after in McKeesport, where his father, a baker by trade, carried on a bakery until his death, in 1865, and which was afterward carried on by his widow in 1872. Their children were Sadie (Mrs. A. M. Kennedy), Carrie (Mrs. Isaac Reager), Mary (Mrs. Benjamin Shellenberger), Fred J. and Thomas D., our subject. The last named was reared and educated in McKeesport; at the age of sixteen entered the office of the National Tube-works company as office-boy, and later worked at the carpenter’s trade three years. He then served as a clerk in the Baltimore & Ohio railroad office three and a half years, and in July, 1880, was appointed teller of the People’s bank; in 1882 was elected assistant cashier of the same, which position he has since creditably filled. In June, 1881, he married Nellie, daughter of Isaac N. and Jennie (Thompson) Downs, of West Newton, Pa., and has two children, Edmund R. and Harry C. Mr. Gardner is a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is a steward. He is treasurer of the Royal Arcanum; politically he is a republican.