Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Robert Gordon and Elizabeth Leslie




Husband Robert Gordon 1 2

           Born:  - Armagh, County Ulster, Ireland
     Christened: 
           Died:  - Nittany Valley, Centre Co, PA
         Buried: 
       Marriage:  - Ireland



Wife Elizabeth Leslie 2

            AKA: [Unk] Leslie 1
           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 


Children
1 M James Gordon 2 3

           Born: 17 Dec 1799 - Centre Co, PA 1 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 17 Dec 1868 1
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Mary Steele (1825-1895) 3



General Notes: Husband - Robert Gordon


He was a native of Armagh, County Ulster, Ireland, who immigrated to America. After a brief stay at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1790, came to Pennsylvania, the Nittany Valley, and secured land in Centre County, where he spent his re-maining years.
He and his wife reared a family of four children.

He was born in county Armagh, Ireland. He came to America in 1788 and in the following year located in Centre County, Pennsylvania, acquiring land in the rich Nittany Valley, where, as a farmer, he passed the remainder of his life.
He had five children, two of them being born after he reached Centre County.

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Sources


1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 549.

2 Roland D. Swoope, Jr., 20th Century History of Clearfield County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1911), Pg 717.

3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 195.


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