Interim Content
Gardner & Patterson
Summary
A wholesale crocker firm operated by merchants Charles Gardner and George Patterson in Buffalo, New York, from 1834 to 1842. Newel K. Whitney purchased goods from the firm for his store in 1834. The Kirtland firms of Cahoon, Carter & Co. and Rigdon, Smith & Cowdery purchased goods from Gardner & Patterson in 1835 and 1836. In December 1836, financial agents gave Gardner & Patterson a promissory note for the consolidated debts of the two Kirtland firms, cosigned by JS, which remained unpaid. Gardner & Patterson transferred the note to George and John Patterson, who began a lawsuit to recover the debt in spring 1837. Agent William Marks settled the debt, purchasing the court judgment against the firms in March 1838 and the land seized in Kirtland by the sheriff to pay the debt. JS, unaware of the resolution of these debts, included the consolidated debt in his bankruptcy application.