Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Gordon, Alexnder L. 1850 - 
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  Alexander L. Gordon, an inteiiigent and industrious farmer living upon section 10,
Collinwood township, is a native of Westchester county, N. Y., born August 1, 1850,
and is the son of William and Jane (Ferguson1) Gordon, who had come to America from
the land of their birth, Scotland, some time previous. The family removed in the
boyhood of our subject to Fond du Lac county, Wis., where he remained until eighteen
years of age. At that time he commenced life for himself as brakeman on the
railroad, which he followed for two years. The following summer he was in the employ
of the Government, driving team, on the line between the United States and Manitoba.
From that time on, for several years, he was engaged in several occupations, all of
them, however, attended by hard labor, sometimes in the pineries, and sometimes in
the harvest field, until his marriage.

  This happy event took place March 21, 1878, at which time he wedded Miss Martha
Delong, the daughter of Madison and Elizabeth (Lunsford) Delong, a sketch of whom
appears elsewhere in this Albmm. Mrs. Gordon was born in Lawrence county, Ohio,
[March 10, 1858, and came to Meeker county with her parents in 1866.

  At the time of his marriage Mr. Gordon settled down to farm life on section 10,
where he now lives and where he has some sixty acres of land mostly under
cultivation. He has held several of the town offices, chief among which is that of
chairman of the board of supervisors, which he occupied for seven years. Hie is the
parent of four children— Elizabeth Jane, born April 2, 1879; William, born December
15, 1880; Elma, born March 11, 1883; and Grace, born January 1, 1SS6.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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