Gardner, Nahum

A friend of Ammi Pierce and the farmer on whose land in the hills west of Arkham a meteor fell in June of 1882 causing the destruction of his family, livestock, and crops.  The meteor sucked the life out of him and his family.  The name Nahum is biblical, the name of a book of the Old Testament.  Nahum the Elkoshite is the seventh of the minor prophets.  Gardner probably comes from the furniture manufacturing town of Gardner in the north central part of Massachusetts.

[The Colour Out of Space - H.P.L.]