GORDON BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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GORDON, A. N. - b: 1850 Henry Co, MO
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 777
residence: Leesville Twp

A. N. Gordon, farmer and stock raiser, section 23, was born in Henry County, 
Missouri, on August 24, 1850. His father, Patterson Gordon, a native of Kentucky, 
came to Missouri when a young man and located in Boone County in 1829. He was 
married there to Lucretia Forbes, also a Kentuckian by birth. After this he moved 
to Johnson County and thence to Rives, now Henry County, in the fall of 1834, 
settling on the place which the subject of this sketch occupies, and which land 
he entered and improved. A. N. Gordon spent his youth on this farm, receiving a 
common school education. He was married December 25, 1873, to Miss Amanda 
Duncan, a native of Newton County, Missouri, and a daughter of Frederick M. 
Duncan. They have one child, Myrtle L. Mr. Gordon has ninety-three acres of land, 
with seventy acres fenced and in cultivation, upon which is a good house and a 
young bearing orchard of select fruits.

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