James Terry Gardner
1842–1912
American civil engineer and topographer. Inspector, United States Ordnance Corps, 1861. Topographer, United States Geological Survey of the Fortieth Parallel, until 1873; United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, 1873–5. Director, state survey of New York, 1876; member of the state board of health, 1880–6.
Sources
Bartlett 1962
DAB s.v. Gardiner, James Terry.
Bibliography
Bartlett, Richard A. 1962. Great surveys of the American West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
DAB: Dictionary of American biography. Under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. 20 vols., index, and 10 supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons; Simon & Schuster Macmillan. London: Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1928–95.
