Hon. James Gordon and Mary Ann Officer

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Husband Hon. James Gordon ¹

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           Born: Abt 1781
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           Died: 6 Mar 1866 - Cookstown (later Fayette City), Fayette Co, PA 1
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       Marriage: Feb 1810 - Washington, Washington Co, PA 1

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Wife Mary Ann Officer ¹

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         Father: Sheriff  Officer (      -      ) 1
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Children

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1 F Margaret Gordon ²

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           Died:  - Monongahela City, Washington Co, PA
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         Spouse: Rev. James Sloan (1807-1871) 1 2
           Marr: 1840 3

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2 M Rev. Thomas P. Gordon ¹

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3 F [Unk] Gordon

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         Spouse: Rev. W. P. Harshe (      -      ) 1

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4 M Dr. James Gordon ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Hon. James Gordon

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He became a resident of Williamsport (later Monongahela City), Washington County, Pennsylvania, in June, 1810. Soon after he established the first Sunday-school ever organized in the place, under a great deal of opposition from people who said "the children should have at least one day in the week to themselves." For more than forty years he was an efficient and acceptable ruling elder in the church.
With credit to himself and great acceptance to his constituency he filled various public offices. Appointed a justice of the peace by Governor Snyder, he served in that capacity for thirty-five years. Governor Shunk appointed him associate judge for Washington County, which position he occupied for five years, and with so much satisfaction that the members of the Washington County bar presented him with an elegant cane at the expiration of his term. He was a member of the electoral college which placed Andrew Jackson in the Presidential chair for the first time. Governor Porter appointed him appraiser of damages on the public works, and he also filled the office of county register by appointment from the same source. He was a county commissioner as early as 1813, and some years afterwards was elected county auditor. As a member of the board of revenue commissioners he represented his district at Harrisburg in 1857.
From 1825 to 1863 he was a trustee of Jefferson College.
Under his father-in-law he served as deputy sheriff, and during the time conveyed to the penitentiary at Philadelphia thirty-three convicts, going over the mountains on horseback with his prisoners, escorted by a mounted guard.

He and his wife had nine children.

1 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 571.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1148.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 132.