Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Gordon, C. A. 1816 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  C. A. GORDON, farmer, P. O. Palestine, was born September 18, 1816, in New
Jersey. He is a son of W. T. Gordon, born 1794, in New Jersey, who died 1830, in
Morgan County, Ohio. He married Anna La Rue, born September 23, 1798, in New
Jersey. She is still living and the mother of eight children, of whom the two
youngest were from her second husband, Peter McMullen. Mr. Gordon was educated
in Ohio, where he learned the carpenter and joiner trade, which he followed
about twelve years. He was joined in matrimony, October 29, 1844, in New
Reading, Ohio, to Miss Mary Bugh, born November 5, 1820, in Ohio. Her father was
Michael Bugh, born in Pennsylvania. She is the mother of three children-William
La Fayette, born January, 3, 1846; Francis G., deceased; Charles A., born August
22, 1849. Mrs. Gordon died August, 1851, in Crawford County, Ill. Our subject
was married a second time, September 2, 1852, to Miss Sarah M. Callahan, born
January 2,1832, in Ohio. She is the daughter of John and Margaret (Brown)
Callahan, and the mother of six children-Theodore G, born September 8, 1853;
Ida, born June 22, 1858; John O., born August 5, 1860; Orin L., born June 27,
1862; Clarence, born November 25, 1863, and George E., born June 6,1868. Mr.
Gordon, who is a descendent of a Scotch nobleman, went West in 1852, living
fifteen years in Iowa and Nebraska. He came back to Crawford County, Ill., in
1868, and owns a farm of 600 acres. Mr. Gordon is identified with the Republican
party, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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