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Born 1847, Trumbull County
From The history of Brown County, Ohio, containing a history of the county ... general and local statistics; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; history of the Northwest territory; history of Oh (1883), History of Clermont and Brown counties, Ohio, from the earliest historical times down to the present (1913)
BYRON W. GORDON, P. 0. Georgetown, a young and enterprising farmer of this township, was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, March 5, 1847. His parents are Thomas W. Gordon and Minerva E. (Scoville) Gordon, the former of whom removed to this county when our subject was but four years of age, and for many years has been a prominent physician and surgeon of Southern Ohio. Mr. Gordon was reared in Georgetown, and there received the benefits of a good English education; when still young, he entered the office of the Southern Ohio Argus, edited by John G- Doren, with whom he served a four years’ apprenticeship. He subsequently followed his trade for some time, also attending school. In February, 1865, he enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Eighty-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was soon after made Hospital Steward. While stationed at Camp Chase, he was taken sick, and June 23, of the same year, was discharged on account of disability; which to a certain extent still continues. In the spring of 1869, he moved onto his present farm of seventy-two acres, in this township. Mr. Gordon was formerly a member of the Grand Army Republic Post, at Georgetown, and Hamer Grange, both organizations now extinct; he is now connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church at Georgetown; Franklin Grange P. of H., of Franklin Township, and is Republican in politics. He was united in marriage, March 4, 1869, to Sallie J. Hicks, a native of this county, and a daughter of John Hicks, born in Pleasant Township. One daughter was born to their union, Annie L., aged ten years. Mrs. Gordon departed this life in November, 1875. Mrs. Gordon’s parents reside with our subject on the farm.
As printed in The history of Brown County, Ohio, containing a history of the county ... general and local statistics; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; history of the Northwest territory; history of Oh (1883). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
BYRON WINSLOW GORDON.
Mr. Byron Winslow Gordon, a retired farmer residing at Georgetown, Ohio, was born March 5, 1847, in Trumbull county, Ohio, a son of Dr. Thomas Winslow and Minerva Elvira (Scoville) Gordon.
Dr. Thomas Winslow Gordon was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, September 23, 1819, and his death occurred at Georgetown, Ohio, April 21, 1900. Winslow is a family name; the maternal grandfather of Dr. Thomas Winslow Gordon being Seth Winslow, a native of Massachusetts, who removed to Naples, New York, and a direct descendant of Edward Winslow, one of the immortal pilgrims who crossed the Atlantic on the Mayflower. Mrs. Gordon, mother of Dr: Thomas Winslow Gordon, died in Warren county, Ohio, in 1849. Dr. Gordon came to Georgetown, Ohio, in 1850, and practiced medicine. He was a very scholarly man, having studied and read law, but not intending to practice this profession, he did not qualify for admission to the bar. He was a noted literary man also, and wrote many articles for the papers and magazines. In the autumn of 1854, he took the editorship of “The Independent American,” a weekly literary and political paper published in Georgetown, Ohio. Many of his literary and scientific articles appeared under the non de plume of “Orion.” He was, for several years, president of a literary, club formed by writers of Brown and Clermont counties, called the “Poetical Union.” Dr. Gordon was the first president of Brown County Academy of Medicine, and was a member of the first meteorological society formed in the West. This society was possibly the first formed in the Lnited States. Dr. T. W.
Gordon was a leading physician and surgeon of Georgetown, Ohio, and was surgeon in the Ninety-seventh Ohio from August, 1862, to June, 1864. He was wounded at Mission Ridge and resigned from the service. He was the oldest of fifteen children, two of whom are living: Esther, widow of a Mr.
Nichols, of Warren, Trumbull county, Ohio, and Samuel Gordon, a resident of Dakota. Dr. Gordon married Miss Minerva Elvira Scoville in the year 1836. She was born in Viena, Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1818, and died in December, 1869. She was a daughter of Asahel Scoville and wife. The Scovilles were natives of Trumbull county and Asahel was a clock maker, and later a farmer. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. His father, Amasa, who came to Trumbull county from Connecticut in 1811 was a soldier in the War of the Revolution. Dr. and Mrs. Gordon became the parents of eight children, five of whom were born in Trumbull county and three in Brown. Their names follow in order of birth:
William, who died in infancy.
Minnie, wife of Hugh Gilmore, and later of James Mills, bothof whom are deceased.
Dr. Sidney C. is retired from active labors and is a resident of Georgetown, Ohio. He served in the Civil war as assistant surgeon of the Fifty-ninth Ohio, and later was commissioned surgeon of the One Hundred and Eighty-ninth Ohio.
Henry Franklin, a resident of Forrest Grove, Ore., is a veteran of the Civil war.
Byron Winslow, the subject of this mention.
Olivia Gertrude, wife of Dr. M. B. Ketchum, of Los Angeles, Cal. He is dean of the Southern California College of Optometry and Ophthalmology. Their residence is at Santa Monica, twenty miles from Los Angeles.
One girl baby died in infancy.
Gus Scoville, born in 1862, is a resident of Quincy, Wash.
Mr. Byron Winslow Gordon attended the Georgetown school, thus obtaining a good common school education. He entered the business world in the printing office of Mr. John G. Doren, who was editor of the “Southern Ohio Argus,” where he became thoroughly familiar with the printer’s trade. He had spent three or four years at this occupation when the Civil war broke out, and he became a volunteer in the One Hundred and Eighty-ninth regiment, in Company H, and later hospital steward.
In 1865, Mr. Gordon returned to Georgetown, where, in 1869, he was united in marriage to Miss Sallie J. Hicks, who was born in Brown county, Ohio, only daughter of John and Anna (Fenton) Hicks, both of whom are deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. Gordon was born one child, Anna L., who is deceased. Mrs. Gordon’s death occurred in November, 1875, and her burial took place at Georgetown, Ohio.
In January, 1890, Mr. Gordon married Miss Nannie Kautz, born May 1, 1869, in Lewis township. Brown county, Ohio, her parents being William and Elizabeth (Young) Kautz, the former of whom was born in Georgetown, Ohio, in August, 1840, and is a farmer in Lewis township, and the latter of whom was born July 4, 1839, and passed away March 6, 1890.. To them were born five children, their births all occurring in Brown county:
Dr. James W., of Cincinnati.
Emma Grace, who died at the age of eleven months.
Mrs. B. W. Gordon.
M. Fannie, who resides with her father.
Flora Elizabeth, wife of John N. Parker, of Albuquerque, N. M.
Two daughters have come to bless the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon:
Ruth Winslow, who was born January 13, 1891, is a graduate of the Georgetown High School.
Elizabeth Scoville, who was born October 25, 1897, and is attending the high school of Georgetown. She takes great interest in music and drawing and was awarded first premium at the Brown county fair in 1912, for drawing the best map of Pleasant township.
Mr. Gordon devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits, from the close of the Civil war until 1896, when he removed his family to Georgetown. He carried on general farming in Franklin township, on a fine tract of ninety-six acres. He now has a very pretty home on Apple street, which he has remodeled and put in fine condition. He has about eight acres of ground and although he has retired from active life, is still a very busy man.
In politics, Mr. Gordon is a staunch Republican and, although he does not desire public office, takes an interest in all questions of public interest.
Mr. Gordon is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. In religious matters, Mr. Gordon is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and his family embrace the faith of the
Presbyterian church, and give liberally to the support of that denomination.
Mr. Gordon is largely self-made, and it is to his untiring energy and enterprise that he is now enabled to lay down some of life's more arduous tasks. He has been a member of the Georgetown school board for the past nine years.
As printed in History of Clermont and Brown counties, Ohio, from the earliest historical times down to the present (1913). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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