History: Gardner House was built ca. 1875 by an Albion hardware merchant, Augustus P. Gardner, who came to Michigan from New York in 1837 as a young man. Augustus Gardner married Samantha Pickins of nearby Marengo, Michigan in 1841. They had one child who died in infancy. After Samantha's death in 1893, Augustus Gardner occupied the house until his own death in 1905. Prior to his death, Gardner...