D. E. GARDNER, Professor of Mathematics and Music in the State Normal School at Platteville, was born in Adams, Jefferson Co., N. Y., in 1837. He was educated in his native State, and commenced teaching in a private school in Jefferson Co. when 20 years of age, and continued in that three years; he was then Professor of Mathematics in Hungerford Collegiate Institute, at Adams, N. Y., for five years, from the time it was established till it was burned in 1867; he then came West, and for six years was Superintendent of Schools and Principal of the High School at Neenah, Wis., and in the fall of 1874 was elected to his present position. He was married in 1864, at Adams, N. Y., to Miss Ella Underwood Brown, of that place, and has two children - Bertha Lucile and Mabel Pauline.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.