Personal Life
Lardner married Margaret Wilmer on February 2, 1832, and they had three children, two of which died in infancy. After his wife's death on April 25, 1846, he married her sister Ellen Wilmer, and had two further sons.
It was because of James Lawrence Lardner that one of his nephews came to be known as Ring Lardner: James Lardner was a friend of Cadwalader Ringgold, another Navy officer who also became a rear admiral. James Lardner named one of his sons "Ringgold Wilmer Lardner", and James' brother gave exactly the same name to his own son after the newborn's cousin. Ring Lardner never liked his given name and shortened it, yet he "lost the battle" when his son, Ring Lardner, Jr. was named after him.
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