Biography
Matilda Hall Gardner was a Washington, DC suffragist and Silent Sentinel arrested for picketing the Wilson White House for women's right to vote in 1917. Sentenced to 60 days at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia. Wife of journalist Gilson Gardner.
Doris Stevens records a separate January 1919 episode, listed under January 13, for which Matilda Hall Gardner received a five-day sentence in the District Jail. This is distinct from her July 14, 1917 picketing case. The imposed five days is not entered as measured time served, and the January 13 label is retained in this account rather than assumed to be an independently established physical arrest day; no jail-admission or physical-release date is inferred. Stevens identifies her as the wife of journalist Gilson Gardner, describes her education in Chicago, Paris and Brussels, and records her service on the National Woman’s Party executive committee from 1914.
