Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Franklin M. Gordon and Eliza McNair Horner




Husband Franklin M. Gordon 1

           Born: Abt 1837 - Baltimore, MD
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           Died: 1883 2
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         Father: John Gordon (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Maria [Unk] (      -      ) 1


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Wife Eliza McNair Horner 1

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         Father: John Horner (1793-1867) 1
         Mother: Mary M. Davis (1806-1887) 1




Children

General Notes: Husband - Franklin M. Gordon


He was born at Baltimore, Maryland, and when a child accompanied his parents to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he was reared and educated. At the age of fifteen years he was employed as a clerk in a store in Pittsburgh, and when he reached his twentieth year was a partner in the same business house. Subsequently he engaged in the insurance business, and still later was tendered and finally accepted the position of cashier in the People's National Bank, which office he held for a term of eighteen years, to the time of his death. He was a highly successful business man and at the time of his death was the owner of a fine home situated on a charming fifteen-acre plot of ground near Swissvale.

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Sources


1 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 176.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 177.


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