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Erik Chaput teaches at Providence College and Western Reserve Academy. Russell DeSimone is an independent scholar from ...

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Gardiner apparently had seven children with Herodias, and after her departure, five more with subsequent wife Lydia Ballou. His family produced a large number of descendants. A grandson, John Gardner ...

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