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	[[File:James M. Wardner.jpg\|right\|thumb\|\|James M. Wardner, c. 1900<br>Courtesy of the [[http://adirondack.pastperfectonline.com/photo/872C5D7B-1B6B-4D79-A913-951763334765\|Adirondack Experience]]]]		[[File:James M. Wardner.jpg\|right\|thumb\|\|James M. Wardner, c. 1900<br>Courtesy of the [http://adirondack.pastperfectonline.com/photo/872C5D7B-1B6B-4D79-A913-951763334765 Adirondack Experience]]]

	[[File:James M. Wardner's tombstone.jpg\|right\|thumb\|\|Mountain View Cemetery ]]		[[File:James M. Wardner's tombstone.jpg\|right\|thumb\|\|Mountain View Cemetery ]]

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	'''Died:''' 1904		'''Died:''' 1904

	'''Married:''' [[Delia~~%20Marshall~~\|Delia Marshall]] (died); [[Addie~~%20Macomber%20Wardner~~\|Addie Macomber]]		'''Married:''' [[Delia Marshall\|Delia Marshall]] (died); [[Addie Macomber Wardner\|Addie Macomber]]

	'''Children:''' With Delia, [[Charles~~%20A~~.~~%20Wardner~~\|Charles A. Wardner]]; with Addie, [[Lulu~~%20Prellwitz%20Toof~~\|Lulu Prellwitz Toof]], [[Charles~~%20H~~.~~%20Wardner~~\|Charles H. Wardner]], James Wardner		'''Children:''' With Delia, [[Charles A. Wardner\|Charles A. Wardner]]; with Addie, [[Lulu Prellwitz Toof\|Lulu Prellwitz Toof]], [[Charles H. Wardner\|Charles H. Wardner]], James Wardner

	'''James Manchester Wardner''' grew up on a farm in Keeseville, New York. At 18 he was hired as a hunter for a wagon train heading for the 1849 California Gold Rush, but he dropped out of the poorly run outfit in Toledo, Ohio, where he stayed five years working on, and eventually buying, a wool carding mill. He returned home after being diagnosed with tuberculosis, which he hoped to cure by going into the Adirondacks, where he hoped to earn a living as a market hunter, trapper and farmer.		'''James Manchester Wardner''' grew up on a farm in Keeseville, New York. At 18 he was hired as a hunter for a wagon train heading for the 1849 California Gold Rush, but he dropped out of the poorly run outfit in Toledo, Ohio, where he stayed five years working on, and eventually buying, a wool carding mill. He returned home after being diagnosed with tuberculosis, which he hoped to cure by going into the Adirondacks, where he hoped to earn a living as a market hunter, trapper and farmer.

	[[File:IMG_8248.jpg\|right\|thumb\|\|James M. Wardner<br>from an unidentified news clipping c. 1900<br>from "Scrapbook No. 1" Saranac Lake Free Library]]He recovered from TB, married Delia Marshall, cleared a farm and built a house that later became the popular [[Rainbow~~%20Inn~~\|Rainbow Inn]]. After one son was born, Delia died, and Wardner married Addie Macomber with whom he had three more children.		[[File:IMG_8248.jpg\|right\|thumb\|\|James M. Wardner<br>from an unidentified news clipping c. 1900<br>from "Scrapbook No. 1" Saranac Lake Free Library]]He recovered from TB, married Delia Marshall, cleared a farm and built a house that later became the popular [[Rainbow Inn\|Rainbow Inn]]. After one son was born, Delia died, and Wardner married Addie Macomber with whom he had three more children.
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	''Plattsburgh Sentinel'', August 1, 1879		''Plattsburgh Sentinel'', August 1, 1879

	Mr. Wardner is a noble specimen of a backwoodsman. Possessed of a fine intellect, fair education, high moral character, backed up by a fine physical structure, and weighing about two hundred pounds, we think we are amply justified in speaking of him in these eulogistic terms. With his brother Seth, he settled here more than thirty years ago, when it was an unbroken wilderness. He has followed trapping, hunting and school teaching the better part of his life. He has killed fourteen bears and probably a thousand deer, and as the country became settled, "taught the young ideas how to shoot!" Mr. Wardner talks some of starting a sort of summer school of natural history for boys, and we urged him to go ahead and try the experiment at least. It strikes us there are many gentlemen in Plattsburgh as well as elsewhere, who would be delighted to avail themselves of an opportunity of sending their sons off into the woods to spend their vacations under so gentlemanly and honorable a tutor and guide, who would make their visit a constant series of object lessons, while he introduced them into the mysteries of fishing, hunting, the camp, and the life of the backwoodsman! It is good fishing at [[Rainbow~~%20Lake~~\|Rainbow Lake]], a handsome body of water, and this has always been a great hunting center. Mr. W. has a large pack of hounds anxiously awaiting the 15th of August. His house is new and commodious.		Mr. Wardner is a noble specimen of a backwoodsman. Possessed of a fine intellect, fair education, high moral character, backed up by a fine physical structure, and weighing about two hundred pounds, we think we are amply justified in speaking of him in these eulogistic terms. With his brother Seth, he settled here more than thirty years ago, when it was an unbroken wilderness. He has followed trapping, hunting and school teaching the better part of his life. He has killed fourteen bears and probably a thousand deer, and as the country became settled, "taught the young ideas how to shoot!" Mr. Wardner talks some of starting a sort of summer school of natural history for boys, and we urged him to go ahead and try the experiment at least. It strikes us there are many gentlemen in Plattsburgh as well as elsewhere, who would be delighted to avail themselves of an opportunity of sending their sons off into the woods to spend their vacations under so gentlemanly and honorable a tutor and guide, who would make their visit a constant series of object lessons, while he introduced them into the mysteries of fishing, hunting, the camp, and the life of the backwoodsman! It is good fishing at [[Rainbow Lake\|Rainbow Lake]], a handsome body of water, and this has always been a great hunting center. Mr. W. has a large pack of hounds anxiously awaiting the 15th of August. His house is new and commodious.

	There were two special reasons for our making a visit to Wardner's. First, to see their collection of stuffed		There were two special reasons for our making a visit to Wardner's. First, to see their collection of stuffed
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	RELICS OF ANTIQUITY.		RELICS OF ANTIQUITY.

	Frequent reference has been made to interesting discoveries of ancient pottery made in this neighborhood by Mr. Wardner, which, owing to the increased interest in this subject, awakened by the recent discoveries by Dr. Kellogg, of Plattsburgh, can hardly fail to interest our readers. Mr. Wardner's most interesting discovery was about twenty years ago, near [[Jones~~%20Pond~~\|Jones Pond]], and consisting of an earthen vessel holding about three gallons and nearly perfect. This is now on exhibition, at the Hall of Military Record, in Albany. The manner of its discovery was singular. He was following a deer over a fallow, from which, the fire had burned nearly all of the vegetable mould or peat, the collection of many years and, perhaps centuries, as not infrequently occurs. Curiosity led him to stop and examine a hole made by one of the deer's feet, which revealed this earthen vessel, half burled in the sand, and into which the deer had stepped. Subsequently, Mr. Wardner found two other similar vessels, which were destroyed at the time his former house was burned. He has now a quantity of fragments of pottery found on an island in Rainbow Lake, which bear a strong resemblance to the specimens discovered by Dr. Kellogg. Mr. Wardner believes this pottery to be the work of a pre-historic race.		Frequent reference has been made to interesting discoveries of ancient pottery made in this neighborhood by Mr. Wardner, which, owing to the increased interest in this subject, awakened by the recent discoveries by Dr. Kellogg, of Plattsburgh, can hardly fail to interest our readers. Mr. Wardner's most interesting discovery was about twenty years ago, near [[Jones Pond\|Jones Pond]], and consisting of an earthen vessel holding about three gallons and nearly perfect. This is now on exhibition, at the Hall of Military Record, in Albany. The manner of its discovery was singular. He was following a deer over a fallow, from which, the fire had burned nearly all of the vegetable mould or peat, the collection of many years and, perhaps centuries, as not infrequently occurs. Curiosity led him to stop and examine a hole made by one of the deer's feet, which revealed this earthen vessel, half burled in the sand, and into which the deer had stepped. Subsequently, Mr. Wardner found two other similar vessels, which were destroyed at the time his former house was burned. He has now a quantity of fragments of pottery found on an island in Rainbow Lake, which bear a strong resemblance to the specimens discovered by Dr. Kellogg. Mr. Wardner believes this pottery to be the work of a pre-historic race.
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	From Charles A. Wardner (d.1952), ''Footprints On Adirondack Trails''. Unpublished typescript at Adirondack Museum, Blue Mt. Lake and Paul Smith’s College Library, no date.		From Charles A. Wardner (d.1952), ''Footprints On Adirondack Trails''. Unpublished typescript at Adirondack Museum, Blue Mt. Lake and Paul Smith’s College Library, no date.

	As a young man in the early 1850s, '''James M. Wardner''' had hoped to go West to make his fortune. After he had been working in Toledo, Ohio, he returned to his parental home near Keeseville. He was engaged to marry [[Delia~~%20Marshall~~\|Delia Marshall]], but had to explain to his family and fiancée that he had been diagnosed with consumption (TB) and might not live more than 2 or 3 months. The Toledo doctor had told him his only chance would be to go up into the mountains to live.		As a young man in the early 1850s, '''James M. Wardner''' had hoped to go West to make his fortune. After he had been working in Toledo, Ohio, he returned to his parental home near Keeseville. He was engaged to marry [[Delia Marshall\|Delia Marshall]], but had to explain to his family and fiancée that he had been diagnosed with consumption (TB) and might not live more than 2 or 3 months. The Toledo doctor had told him his only chance would be to go up into the mountains to live.

	“Mother slipped her arm around me, the tears were running down her dear old face. The rest of our family expressed deep sympathy. The situation was getting to the point beyond the limit of my self control when Lavona (his sister) broke the spell:		“Mother slipped her arm around me, the tears were running down her dear old face. The rest of our family expressed deep sympathy. The situation was getting to the point beyond the limit of my self control when Lavona (his sister) broke the spell:
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	‘Hunting and trapping mostly,’ I told her ‘…I also want to have a farm up there somewhere,’ I was filled with strong determination, not alone to regain my health, but also to make a comfortable and prosperous home somewhere in the Adirondacks. I loved farming almost as well as I did hunting, trapping and fishing. If I could make these pleasures earn a good living for me, then I would indeed be happy. I also felt sure the mountain air would fully restore my health. It was worth trying at any rate.”		‘Hunting and trapping mostly,’ I told her ‘…I also want to have a farm up there somewhere,’ I was filled with strong determination, not alone to regain my health, but also to make a comfortable and prosperous home somewhere in the Adirondacks. I loved farming almost as well as I did hunting, trapping and fishing. If I could make these pleasures earn a good living for me, then I would indeed be happy. I also felt sure the mountain air would fully restore my health. It was worth trying at any rate.”

	Before leaving, James went to buy a canoe from the Abnenaki Indian, [[Perejeune\|Perejeune]], father of his friend [[Mitchell~~%20Sabattis~~\|Mitchell Sabattis]]. He was given a canoe as well as medicine for his cough, made of balsam, spruce and pitch pine. He reported “the cough remedy helped me greatly.”		Before leaving, James went to buy a canoe from the Abnenaki Indian, [[Perejeune\|Perejeune]], father of his friend [[Mitchell Sabattis\|Mitchell Sabattis]]. He was given a canoe as well as medicine for his cough, made of balsam, spruce and pitch pine. He reported “the cough remedy helped me greatly.”

	So James, with his brother [[Seth~~%20Wardner~~\|Seth]] and friend [[Lorenzo~~%20Rand~~\|Lorenzo Rand]], camped all winter in a log cabin on [[Osgood~~%20Pond~~\|Osgood Pond]]. They did well with hunting and trapping and James earned enough to buy land in 1855, for a farm on his chosen site at [[Rainbow~~%20Lake~~\|Rainbow Lake]]. He recovered from TB to marry Delia, clear a farm and build a house that he later enlarged to become the [[Rainbow~~%20Inn~~\|Rainbow Inn]], a successful resort. After one son had been born, Delia died. Later James married [[Addie~~%20Macomber~~\|Addie Macomber]] and they had three more children. James Wardner lived a long and productive life, becoming a school superintendent and [[Town~~%20of%20Brighton%20Supervisor~~\|Town of Brighton Supervisor]]. He lived to age 73 (1831-1904). His descendants still return to Rainbow Lake each summer at this son [[Charles~~%20Wardner~~\|Charles Wardner]]’s camp, and his great granddaughter Joan Wardner Allen now lives year round at the Rainbow Camp.		So James, with his brother [[Seth Wardner\|Seth]] and friend [[Lorenzo Rand\|Lorenzo Rand]], camped all winter in a log cabin on [[Osgood Pond\|Osgood Pond]]. They did well with hunting and trapping and James earned enough to buy land in 1855, for a farm on his chosen site at [[Rainbow Lake\|Rainbow Lake]]. He recovered from TB to marry Delia, clear a farm and build a house that he later enlarged to become the [[Rainbow Inn\|Rainbow Inn]], a successful resort. After one son had been born, Delia died. Later James married [[Addie Macomber\|Addie Macomber]] and they had three more children. James Wardner lived a long and productive life, becoming a school superintendent and [[Town of Brighton Supervisor\|Town of Brighton Supervisor]]. He lived to age 73 (1831-1904). His descendants still return to Rainbow Lake each summer at this son [[Charles Wardner\|Charles Wardner]]’s camp, and his great granddaughter Joan Wardner Allen now lives year round at the Rainbow Camp.
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	The funeral was held at Rainbow Thursday. Mr. Wardner was in his 74th year.		The funeral was held at Rainbow Thursday. Mr. Wardner was in his 74th year.

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	…In 1871 the white school-house was finished, a bell placed in its tower, the two districts consolidated, and James M. Wardner, since proprietor of Rainbow Inn, installed as teacher. He proved in~~<span style="">~~ every way fitted for his duties, infusing his pupils with enthusiasm in their studies, and from that time on began the prosperity of our schools…		…In 1871 the white school-house was finished, a bell placed in its tower, the two districts consolidated, and James M. Wardner, since proprietor of Rainbow Inn, installed as teacher. He proved in every way fitted for his duties, infusing his pupils with enthusiasm in their studies, and from that time on began the prosperity of our schools…

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	~~<span>~~…In ~~<span>~~1871 the white school-house was finished, ~~<span>~~a bell placed in its~~<span> <span>~~tower,~~<span> <span>~~the~~<span> <span>~~two~~<span> <span>~~districts consolidated, and James M. Wardner, since proprietor of~~<span> <span>~~Rainbow Inn, installed as teacher.~~<span> <span>~~He proved~~<span> <span>~~in<span style=""~~> <span~~>every ~~<span>~~way fitted~~<span> <span>~~for~~<span> <span>~~his~~<span> <span>~~duties,~~<span> <span>~~infusing~~<span> <span>~~his ~~<span>~~pupils with enthusiasm~~<span> <span>~~in~~<span> <span>~~their~~<span> <span>~~studies, ~~<span>~~and from that time on~~<span> <span>~~began~~<span> <span>~~the~~<span> <span>~~prosperity of~~<span> <span>~~our schools…		…In 1871 the white school-house was finished, a bell placed in its tower, the two districts consolidated, and James M. Wardner, since proprietor of Rainbow Inn, installed as teacher. He proved in<span style=""> every way fitted for his duties, infusing his pupils with enthusiasm in their studies, and from that time on began the prosperity of our schools…

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	[[File:James M. Wardner.jpg\|right\|thumb\|\|James M. Wardner, c. 1900<br>Courtesy of the ]][[http://adirondack.pastperfectonline.com/photo/872C5D7B-1B6B-4D79-A913-951763334765\|Adirondack Experience]]]]		[[File:James M. Wardner.jpg\|right\|thumb\|\|James M. Wardner, c. 1900<br>Courtesy of the [[http://adirondack.pastperfectonline.com/photo/872C5D7B-1B6B-4D79-A913-951763334765\|Adirondack Experience]]]]

	[[File:James M. Wardner's tombstone.jpg\|right\|thumb\|\|Mountain View Cemetery ]]		[[File:James M. Wardner's tombstone.jpg\|right\|thumb\|\|Mountain View Cemetery ]]

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	[[File:James M. Wardner.jpg\|right\|thumb\|\|James M. Wardner, c. 1900<br>\|Courtesy of the ]][[http://adirondack.pastperfectonline.com/photo/872C5D7B-1B6B-4D79-A913-951763334765\|Adirondack Experience]]]]		[[File:James M. Wardner.jpg\|right\|thumb\|\|James M. Wardner, c. 1900<br>Courtesy of the ]][[http://adirondack.pastperfectonline.com/photo/872C5D7B-1B6B-4D79-A913-951763334765\|Adirondack Experience]]]]

	[[File:James M. Wardner's tombstone.jpg\|right\|thumb\|\|Mountain View Cemetery ]]		[[File:James M. Wardner's tombstone.jpg\|right\|thumb\|\|Mountain View Cemetery ]]
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	'''James Manchester Wardner''' grew up on a farm in Keeseville, New York. At 18 he was hired as a hunter for a wagon train heading for the 1849 California Gold Rush, but he dropped out of the poorly run outfit in Toledo, Ohio, where he stayed five years working on, and eventually buying, a wool carding mill. He returned home after being diagnosed with tuberculosis, which he hoped to cure by going into the Adirondacks, where he hoped to earn a living as a market hunter, trapper and farmer.		'''James Manchester Wardner''' grew up on a farm in Keeseville, New York. At 18 he was hired as a hunter for a wagon train heading for the 1849 California Gold Rush, but he dropped out of the poorly run outfit in Toledo, Ohio, where he stayed five years working on, and eventually buying, a wool carding mill. He returned home after being diagnosed with tuberculosis, which he hoped to cure by going into the Adirondacks, where he hoped to earn a living as a market hunter, trapper and farmer.

	[[File:IMG_8248.jpg\|right\|thumb\|\|James M. Wardner<br>\|from an unidentified news clipping c. 1900<br>\|from "Scrapbook No. 1" Saranac Lake Free Library]]He recovered from TB, married Delia Marshall, cleared a farm and built a house that later became the popular [[Rainbow%20Inn\|Rainbow Inn]]. After one son was born, Delia died, and Wardner married Addie Macomber with whom he had three more children.		[[File:IMG_8248.jpg\|right\|thumb\|\|James M. Wardner<br>from an unidentified news clipping c. 1900<br>from "Scrapbook No. 1" Saranac Lake Free Library]]He recovered from TB, married Delia Marshall, cleared a farm and built a house that later became the popular [[Rainbow%20Inn\|Rainbow Inn]]. After one son was born, Delia died, and Wardner married Addie Macomber with whom he had three more children.
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	[[File:James M. Wardner.jpg\|right\|thumb\|\|James M. Wardner, c. 1900<br>\|Courtesy of the ]][[http://adirondack.pastperfectonline.com/photo/872C5D7B-1B6B-4D79-A913-951763334765\|Adirondack Experience]]]][[File:James M. Wardner's tombstone.jpg\|right\|thumb\|\|Mountain View Cemetery ]]		[[File:James M. Wardner.jpg\|right\|thumb\|\|James M. Wardner, c. 1900<br>\|Courtesy of the ]][[http://adirondack.pastperfectonline.com/photo/872C5D7B-1B6B-4D79-A913-951763334765\|Adirondack Experience]]]]

			[[File:James M. Wardner's tombstone.jpg\|right\|thumb\|\|Mountain View Cemetery ]]

	'''Born:''' 1831		'''Born:''' 1831

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	[[File:James~~%20M~~.~~%20Wardner~~.jpg\|right\|thumb\|\|James M. Wardner, c. 1900<br>\|Courtesy of the [[http://adirondack.pastperfectonline.com/photo/872C5D7B-1B6B-4D79-A913-951763334765\|Adirondack Experience]]]][[File:James~~%20M~~.~~%20Wardner~~'s~~%20tombstone~~.jpg\|right\|thumb\|\|Mountain View Cemetery ]]		[[File:James M. Wardner.jpg\|right\|thumb\|\|James M. Wardner, c. 1900<br>\|Courtesy of the ]][[http://adirondack.pastperfectonline.com/photo/872C5D7B-1B6B-4D79-A913-951763334765\|Adirondack Experience]]]][[File:James M. Wardner's tombstone.jpg\|right\|thumb\|\|Mountain View Cemetery ]]

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	''Adirondack Daily Enterprise'', [[http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn86033360/1895-02-21/ed-1/seq-1/\|February 21, 1895]]		''Adirondack Daily Enterprise'', [[http:/\nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn86033360/1895-02-21/ed-1/seq-1/\|February 21, 1895]]

	'''Saranac Lake History'''		'''Saranac Lake History'''

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