Fine Portrait Pair Surgeon & Wife New York 1900Dr. Stanley Gardiner and Elizabeth Bennett Gardiner, the subjects of the two oil portraits.
Dr Sidney H. Gardiner was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada on May 6, 1862. He was a physician and inventor in Brooklyn New York. He was an expert in the treating of appendicitis. Ironically, he died in 1914 of the disease after delaying treatment.
In 1891, he married Elizabeth Bennett, daughter of George C. Bennett, publisher of the Brooklyn Times, where Walt Whitman worked as a writer.
One of their daughters, Ruth, married John Carpenter and gave birth to two daughters: Penelope Carpenter [Keiselbach] and my mother, Nancy Bennett Carpenter [Wendell]
Evert Jansen Wendell
Sources:
Pat Keiselbach Murphy
Suzanne Spellen
Here is a link to an article written by Suzanne Spellen and published in Brownstoner Daily I found online about the Gardiners and their home in Brooklyn. I reached out to Suzanne last spring and recently heard back from her. I am waiting for a request to talk.
https://www.brownstoner.com/architecture/brooklyn-bed-stuy-architecture-267-jefferson-avenue-dr-sidney-gardiner-queen-anne/
Here is an excerpt from the Brownstoner.com article, written by Suzanne Spellen:
Sidney Herbert Gardiner was a prominent medical doctor in the County of Kings, at the turn of the 20th century. He was Canadian, born in Ontario in 1862. He bounced back and forth across the border to receive his education; going to college in Syracuse and returning to Canada to Queen’s University for his medical education. He eventually moved to Brooklyn, in 1880, and set up his practice. For many years he was a surgeon at Long Island College Hospital, and was also a gynecologist at the Eastern District Hospital.
Dr. Gardiner married Elizabeth Bennett in 1891. She was the daughter of George C. Bennett, the founder of the Brooklyn Times newspaper, and the sister of Charles G. Bennett, who was a New York State Congressman. The couple had three daughters. By the time the girls were young ladies, the family was a familiar name on the Brooklyn Social Register and circuit. The girls were very popular, and the family’s summers at their vacation spots in New Jersey were always written about.

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