BIO: John Kyle GORDON, A.B., M.D., Chambersburg, Franklin County, PA

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Medical Men of Franklin County, 1750-1925 by Ambrose Watts Thrush, M.D.;
Chambersburg, Pa.; Medical Society of Franklin County, Page 147
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JOHN KYLE GORDON, A. B., M. D.

  John K. Gordon was born August 6, 1877, in Fannetteburg, Pa., the son of Rev. 
J. Smith and Margaret Beatty (Kyle) Gordon.  The former was one of the leading 
ministers of the Presbyterian denomination in Franklin County and was for more 
than forty-six years (1859-1904) the pastor of Lower Path Valley Presbyterian 
Church.

  Dr. John K. Gordon received his early education in the common schools and at 
Mercersburg Academy.  He then entered Princeton University and was graduated A. 
B. in 1899 from this institution.  Deciding to become a physician he attended 
the usual course lectures at the University of Pennsylvania and was graduated M. 
D. with the class of 1904.  After graduation he served as resident physician in 
the Germantown and the Bryn Mawr Hospital.  Dr. Gordon began the practice of 
medicine in Chambersburg and has continued in active practice here to the 
present.

  He has been a member of the Medical Society since 1908, and was President in 
1918.  He is a member of the Staff of the Chambersburg Hospital and during the 
World War served on the Chambersburg Draft Board and was for some years 
Physician to the County Home.  He is a trustee of the Falling Spring 
Presbyterian Church, a Republican in politics and at this time is President of 
the Chambersburg School Board.

  He married in 1909 Eleanor Wharton Wood of Philadelphia who died in 1919.

  Married second in 1926 Alice Hibberd Childs.

  Dr. Gordon is the father of two sons by his first marriage.