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FILE NAME: Crane Company (CRC) DATE: 1946 DOC#: CRC020 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Newspaper Article - Obituary - Dr. Gardner, Silicosis Expert DR. G A M E R DIES; Leader in Research on Disease Headed Saranac Laboratory --Won Several Awards Special to Tut Nrw Yonc Tiatrs SARANAC LAKE, N. Y,, Oct. 24--Dr. Leroy Upson Gaidner, di rector of the Saranac Laboratory and the Trudeau Foundation, and an international leader m the re search of silicosis and other indus trial diseases, died here this morn ing in his home. Hia age was 57, At his death. Dr. Gardner was in the midst of a program for the expansion of the laboratory and the development of a $1,000,000 medi cal center m Saranac Lake. He had raised more than 5100,000 for an addition to the laboratory and was planning for the development of the medical center. As a director of the Trudeau Foundation, he also was interested m the expansion program planned for Trudeau San atorium th at will call for an ex penditure of more than $1,000,000. Dr. G ardner leaves a widow, the form er C arabcl M cKenzie, whom he m a rn e d m Ju n e, 1915, an d two daughters. M rs. B enjam in Downs of W ashington. D. C , and M is F L evering N eely of A tlanta. Ga. l i o n K n u d sen A u a r d n 1940 D r G a rd n e r le c e n e d in 1940 the W illiam S Knudsen A w ard fo r hts research on the contiol of silicosis which w as credited w ith determ in ing w h at tak e place in a w ork m an's lungs as a result of b reath ing silica dust and w ith m aking possible the prescription of p re ventive m easures for industrial p la n ts . I n 1935 he* receiv ed the Trudeau M edal for im portant w ork in the pathology of tubercu losis and th e relation between tuberculosis and silicosis. As director of the Saranac Lab oratory, Dr Gardner Used its facilities in seeking the answer to questions he posed as a young medical student "Wliv are some stone ctiUcis in the Rarvc, Vt. granite quarries highly susceptible to tuberculosis'* And why. m the neai-bv Pioctor, Vt marble quar ries, are the cutters not similarly affected7' He began his investigations m 1911 T w en ty -six y e a rs la te r* Ins reseat ch had m ade him an in ter national authority on the subject Silicosis re-seai rh took D r. Gard* net to ind u su ia! plants and m ines thioughout the nation. Born in N ew B ritain, Conn , son or I ru n g Isaac and Inez Baldwin U pson G aidnev he received a B.A. d eg iee m 1912 and an M D degree m 1914 fro m Y ale, a n d to o k p o s t graduate w ork a t Boston City H ospital and H arvard Medical School fio in 1914 to 1917 T aught a t H arvard and Yale During the first World War Dr. Gardner scived hs a heutruant m the Aimv Medical Corps m 1917. He was mslructoi in pathology, Harvaid Medical School, in 1916 17. and assistant professor of pathology, Yale School of Medi cine 1917-18 In 1919 he becam e p athologist of the T rudeau Foundation at Saranac Lake. He was appointed director of the Saianae Laboratory in 1927 and dw eetor of the fo u n d a tion and Trudeau School in 1938. H e w as 9 tm s te c 01 th e V illage of Saranac Lake in 3932-33. a mem ber o f the w n te i b o a rd m 3929-30 and a m em ber of the Village P lan ning Commission. In 1940 he received an honorary M S degree from Yale He w as th e eiiU iot, `w ith S A P e tro ff, o f "T uhn tulusis -- Bat teriology, Pathologs' and Labov?toiy D iag n o sis" and contributed lo m edical, publicLons on silicosis and r e lated d ise a s e due to dnsl DR. LEROY U. GARDNER Prcst. 33 . & )r Nrlu Jjork Slm ra Published October 25. 1946 Copyright d Tne New York Times