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Morton Smith Wardner

Morton Smith Wardner

Male 1850 - 1943  (93 years)

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  • Name Morton Smith Wardner 
    Born 14 Jan 1850  Shanghai, Zhonghua Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 20 Dec 1943  Chicago, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Irving Park Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I15963  Family Tree
    Last Modified 10 Nov 2013 

    Father Nathan B. Wardner,   b. 12 Apr 1820, Wheatland, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Apr 1894, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years) 
    Mother Olive Brown Forbes,   b. 22 May 1822, Locke, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Oct 1888, Milton Junction, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years) 
    Family ID F15219  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Sarah Lawshe Summerbell,   b. 17 May 1846, Quakertown, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Dec 1926, Plainfield, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years) 
    Married 1873  Plainfield, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Nathan Summerbell Wardner,   b. 15 Dec 1874, Allegany County, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Dec 1924, Albany County, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 49 years)
    +2. James Forbes Wardner,   b. 7 Sep 1877, Richburg, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Mar 1952, Lackawanna, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 74 years)
     3. Thomas Brown Wardner,   b. 31 Jul 1879, Allegany County, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Dec 1949, Plainfield, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years)
     4. Rachel Wardner,   b. 13 Jun 1881,   d. 17 Feb 1973  (Age 91 years)
    +5. Olive Marguerite Wardner,   b. 29 Jun 1890, Chicago, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Aug 1968, Chicago, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years)
     6. Horace Morton Wardner,   b. 18 Aug 1891, Chicago, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Dec 1932, Danville, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 41 years)
     7. Vera Arlouine Wardner,   b. 7 Jul 1895, Chicago, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Jun 1988, Beloit, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 92 years)
    Last Modified 10 Nov 2013 
    Family ID F15221  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Evelyn Grace Minerva Anderson,   b. 26 Nov 1864, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Jul 1930, Chicago, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 65 years) 
    Married 1887 
    Last Modified 10 Nov 2013 
    Family ID F15222  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 3 Ruth Ann Clough,   b. 1872, Metamora, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1957, Toledo, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 85 years) 
    Last Modified 10 Nov 2013 
    Family ID F15223  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 14 Jan 1850 - Shanghai, Zhonghua Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 1873 - Plainfield, New Jersey, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 20 Dec 1943 - Chicago, Illinois, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Irving Park Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States Link to Google Earth
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    Morton Smith Wardner
    Morton Smith Wardner

    Census
    1860 US Census
    1860 US Census
    Alfred, Allegany County, New York

  • Notes 
    • Morton Smith Wardner, son of Elder Nathan and Mrs. Olive Forbes Wardner, was born January 14, 1850, in Shanghai, China, and died at the home of his daughter in Chicago, December 20, 1943, being nearly ninety-four years of age.
      His parents, with Elder and Mrs. Solomon Carpenter, were the first Seventh Day Baptist missionaries in China, going to Shanghai in 1847. Because of the failing health of Mrs. Wardner, she returned to America with her children in 1856, her husband returning the next year.
      After attending Alfred Academy, Morton Wardner went to Williams College, where he received the A.B. degree in 1873, with election to Phi Beta Kappa, and later a master's degree. Having decided to prepare for the ministry, he took the theological course at Alfred, receiving the B. D. degree in 1876. He also taught Latin and operated a shirt factory at Alfred while a student there. For some years prior to his death, he was Alfred University's oldest living alumnus.
      His father being then in Scotland in the employ of the Tract Society, he assisted him in the work there, and in the establishment of the Mission in Holland, returning to America in 1877.
      He received a call to go as a missionary to China, but arrangements were not immediately made, and he did missionary work in the Western Association, and in 1878 was employed as a preacher in tent work for the Tract Society. In 1879 the call to China was renewed, but was finally declined, and he accepted the pastorate at Little Genesee, N. Y., where he was ordained to the gospel ministry and served from 1880 to 1881. Although never afterward engaged in the full-time ministry, he continued to lecture on the Sabbath and other Biblical topics, and was a life member of the American Sabbath Tract Society.
      The field of medicine appealed to him, and after running a drug store in Chicago, and studying medicine with his cousin, Dr. Horace Wardner, he entered Rush Medical College, receiving his M.D. degree in 1884. He continued to practice medicine until his ninety-second year, delivering a child on his ninety-first birthday, thereby missing a neighborhood gathering in his honor at Genoa, Ark.
      For about fifty years he made his home at or near Fouke, Ark., and was a member of the Fouke Seventh Day Baptist Church; but he spent his last two years at the home of his daughter in Chicago. Doctor Wardner married Sarah Summerbell in Plainfield, N. J., in 1873, and had four children: Nathan (deceased); Dr. James Forbes of Buffalo, N. Y.; Thomas of Plainfield, N. J.; Rachel (Mrs. P. Caris) of Trenton, N. J.
      In 1887, he married Evelyn G. Anderson, and by this marriage had three children: Olive (Mrs. M. S. Campagna) of Chicago; Horace (deceased); and Vera (Mrs. Ronald Dougan) of Beloit, Wis. He had twelve grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren, two of his grandsons being now naval officers on duty in the South Pacific. His widow, Mrs. Ruth Wardner, survives.
      He died in complete trust in the merits of the shed blood of Jesus Christ for the remission of sin. C. A. B.

      'The Sabbath Recorder', Vol 136, No 22, p 350, May 29, 1944.