Bio of GORDON, Dr. George Jacob (b.1874), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

GEORGE JACOB GORDON, M. D. - Vol III, pg 644-647
Dr. George Jacob Gordon, a Minneapolis physician who has devoted his atten­tion
to practice in this city since 1900, was born in Kovno, Russia, now Lithuania,
on the 15th of April, 1874, and is a son of Bear and Bella (Shub) Gordon, who
were also natives of Russia. The father was a teacher in that country, following
the pro­fession to the time of his death.
George Jacob Gordon attended private schools and also the academy of his native
city and came to America alone when a youth of eighteen years, crossing the
Atlantic in 1892. He was for a time employed in a factory in New York city but
after several months resumed his westward journey, which brought him to
Minneapolis in the spring of 1893. Here he taught Hebrew and also attended the
Blaine school. In the fall of 1893 he entered the North high school in order to
perfect his knowledge of English and some scientific branches and in 1896 he
went to Philadelphia, where he matriculated in the Jefferson Medical College,
from which he was gradu­ated on the completion of a four years' course in 1900.
While pursuing his medical studies he also served as interne at Blockley
Hospital and thus greatly promoted his efficiency by actual practical
experience. In 1900 he returned to Minneapolis and took up the practice of
medicine, in which he has continued, and his steady advance­ment in the
profession is the expression of the skill and ability which he has displayed in
solving the intricate and involved problems which constantly confront the
physician. He was instructor in therapeutics in Hamline Medical College before
its consolidation with the University of Minnesota and be served on the staff of
Asbury Hospital as obstetrician before that institution became a government
hospital. He is now on the staff of the Ripley Memorial Hospital, formerly the
Maternity Hospital. He belongs to the Hennepin County Medical Society, the
Minnesota State Medical Society and the American Medical Association and is
continually promoting his skill and efficiency by reading and study as well as
through the knowledge that he acquires in the interchange of thought and
experiences with his fellow members of the different medical societies to which
he belongs.
On the 16th of April, 1902, Dr. Gordon was married to Miss Sophia Weinberg, a
native of Lithuania, and they have become parents of four children: Grace A.,
Stella B., Theodore H. and Myrtle R.
Dr. Gordon belongs to the Gymal Doled Club and other organizations and he has
been quite active in Hebrew circles of the city. He helped to organize and is
also a director of the Associated Jewish Charities; is a member of the Jewish
Home for the Aged of the Northwest; and as chairman of the educational committee
of the "Talmud Torah" and a member of the board of its service department. He is
ever endeavoring to promote the best interests of his fellow countrymen and
others, particularly in providing the youth with more adequate and thorough
religious training in an effort to make better men and women and better citizens
out of the emigrants. He is a member of the national executive committee of the
Zionist Organization of America and he has twice been elected to the
American-Jewish con­gress held in Philadelphia. Thus in various ways he is
making his life work of benefit and value to his fellowmen and he has received
and merited the respect and confidence of people of all faiths and
nationalities.