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Dr. Murray M. Gardner, 70, of 202 Paddock St., Watertown senior member of the medical firm of Gardner and Gardner, physicians and surgeons of Watertown, and one of Northern New York's leading surgeons, died suddenly at 9:45 a.m. Wednesday in the House of the Good Samaritan in Watertown. Death was attributed to an attack of coronary thrombosis. He had been suffering from the ailment since his first attack on May 19 and had been a patient at the hospital since Oct. 3.
Dr. Murray MacGregor Gardner was born May 3, 1887, in Ogdensburg, a son of the late Rev. John H. and Nellie Volans Gardner.
He received his early education in Fort Covington schools. He took his pre-medical course at Hamilton College and graduated from New York University in 1912 with the degree of doctor of medicine.
When World War I broke out he entered military service serving with the U.S. Army Medical Corps from October, 1917, to March, 1919, rising from lieutenant to captain.
Dr. Gardner married twice. On Apr. 10, 1917 he married Margaret Ogden, daughter of Isaac C. and Mary Kneass Ogden of Orange, N.J. Two children were born of the marriage. The first Mrs. Gardner died in 1930 of influenza-pneumonia.
On May 18, 1937, he married Katharine Sewall Stebbins, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Cooper Stebbins of Watertown. One son was born of that marriage.
Surviving Dr. Gardner are his wife, Mrs. Katharine Sewall Stebbins Gardner; three children, Dr. Murray H. Gardner of Watertown and Mrs. Richard P. (Mary "Polly" Kneass) Herzer of Levittown, L.I., born of his first marriage, and John MacGregor Gardner of Watertown, a student at Hamilton College, born of his second marriage, one brother, the Rev. John H. Gardner, Baltimore, Md., and five grandchildren.²

PAUL GARDNER DEAD; NOTED IN RACING CIRCLES
Paul E. Gardner, prominent in Chicago society, died suddenly today at his home at Old Westbury, L.Is., where he had lived the last several years. Death was attributed to heart attack.
Mr. Gardner was the first president of the Post and Paddock Club at Arlington race track, where he frequently was host at fashionable parties. He was a member also of several other Chicago clubs.
He was 50 years old. Surviving are his mother, Mrs. James J. Gardner; a brother, Ralph N. Gardner; a son Frederick Sewall Gardner, and his widow, who was Mrs. Elliot C. Bacon of New York.
Mr. Gardner was a graduate of the University of Chicago in 1911. He was a broker in Chicago until he moved to Long Island several years ago.³