MUSCOGEE COUNTY, GA - BIOS Frederick B. Gordon

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Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Georgia, Page 614
Published by the Atlanta Historical Association in 1895

MUSCOGEE COUNTY

Frederick B. Gordon, of the firm of Joseph Kyle & Co., Columbus, Ga., was born in Newton, a suburb of Boston, Mass., in 1857.  He was reared and educated in the town of his birth and is a graduate of its high school.  He left school at the age of eighteen and soon after came to Columbus, becoming a partner with J.O. Matthews & Co., of Augusta, Ga., in the commercial fertilizer business, continuing in that business for several years.  In 1887 Mr. Gordon became a member of the firm of Kyle & Co.  On his shoulders falls the responsibility of the active management of the business of his firm, his duties including the purchase of all goods for the dry goods and manufacturing departments, the dictation of all correspondence and the decision of all questions of credit.  So well, however, has he systematized the business of the house that he finds time to shake hands with customers of the house on the street, and to make occasional trips into the surrounding country in addition to his regular trips to the northern market.  His qualifications are best summed up by the statement that under his management the business has been more successful than at any time in its history.  He was secretary and treasurer of the first exposition given by the Chattahoochee Valley Exposition company, and is now the president of the Columbus board of trade.  He has served on the public library board, and is a member of the board of school trustees.  Mr. Gordon was happily married in November, 1883, to Miss Rosa Crook, a step-daughter of Joseph Kyle, his partner, and this union has been blessed by the birth of two daughters: Mary Elizabeth and Margaret Crook.  Mr. Gordon is a deacon of the First Presbyterian church.