John I. Gordon

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Husband John I. Gordon ¹

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            AKA: John J. Gordon 2
           Born: 3 Mar 1845 - Mill Creek Twp, Mercer Co, PA 3
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         Father: Joseph Gordon (1815-1887) 4 5
         Mother: Emily McCracken (1821-1876) 6

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General Notes: Husband - John I. Gordon

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He was born on a farm in Mill Creek Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, attending district school and the New Lebanon Academy three terms prior to August, 1862, when he enlisted as a private in Company A, One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was discharged from the United States service in December, 1864, on account of a gun-shot wound received in the battle of the Wilderness, Virginia. On returning from the army, after his health had sufficiently recovered, he attended the State Normal School at Edinboro, alternating with teaching until in the spring of 1868, when he began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Giebner, of Sandy Lake. In 1869 he was elected recorder of deeds of this county, and assumed his official duties the first Monday of December of that year; following this he served three years as prothonotary's clerk, and on January 1, 1876, he assumed the management and control of the Mercer Dispatch newspaper. In 1880 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago. For some years he was engaged principally in farming. He was interested in the Soldiers' Orphan School at Mercer, was a Republican, a member of the Second United Presbyterian Church and was superintendent of its Sabbath-schools. [HMC 1888, 666]

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 666, 1057.

2 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 962.

3 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 666.

4 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1057.

5 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 962, 982.

6 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 962, 1031.