author
Georgeanna M. Gardenier
A late 19th-century writer and reformer, she helped record the early history of New York’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union with a clear eye for organization and public work. Her surviving work offers a window into the energy of women-led reform movements in that era.
1 Audiobook
Two Decades A History of the First Twenty Years' Work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the State of New York
by Frances W. Graham, Georgeanna M. Gardenier
About the author
Born in Oswego County, New York, Georgeanna M. Remington Gardenier was educated in the high school and normal school of Oswego City. Contemporary biographical material in Two Decades says she was the daughter of John and Mary Tenney Remington, joined the First Baptist Church of Oswego at sixteen, and was active in Baptist home mission work in her county.
That same source describes her as an experienced teacher and notes that she married W. H. Gardenier, a lawyer, in 1863. She became associated with temperance work in New York State and is best known as the co-author, with Frances W. Graham, of Two Decades: A History of the First Twenty Years' Work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the State of New York (1894).
Her writing helped preserve the story of a major reform movement led by women, documenting its growth, leaders, and local efforts across the state. While detailed biographical information about her is limited, the work she left behind remains a valuable primary source for readers interested in women’s history, reform, and civic activism in 19th-century America.