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Author: Bowen & Co. (1903)

PETER GORDON.

   Peter Gordon, of Kemmerer, Wyoming, a prominent and well-known man, was born
in Scotland in 1843, the son of James and Maggie (Grant) Gordon. His father, a
shoemaker by trade, was also a native of Scotland and like many others of his
name and craft was prominent in the affairs of his country, dying in 1879 at the
hale old age of 86. The name of Gordon has always been prominent in the annals
of Scotland, and our Mr. Gordon traces his ancestry in that land for many
generations. His mother was a most devoted mother, a member of the Protestant
church and of most excellent traits of character. She died in 1876 at the age of
82. Peter Gordon received his early education in Scotland, where he followed the
work of a farmer in Banffshire and Murrayshire, until 1872, when he emigrated,
coming to Boston, Mass., where he took up railroad work for two years in the
neighborhood of Boston and then went to New York for a year after which he
crossed the international line into Ontario and continued railroad work for
eight years on the Great Western Railway thence coming to Waterfall, Wyo., he
worked two years longer on railroads and opened a general store and saloon in
Fossil, Wyo., which he conducted for ten or eleven years. There he sold out two
years ago and established a business at Big Piney which he was able to sell to
good advantage in February, 1902. Returning to Fossil he again engaged in a
business, which he still owns. In September, 1902, he engaged in the saloon
business at Kemmerer, at which place he now makes his home, being a Republican
in his politics. He married in i860 with Miss Jessie Herd, like himself a native
of Scotland. She died four years ago, leaving these children: James, Maggie,
Elsie, Anna and Peter.



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A people who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors, will
never achieve anything worthy to he remembered with pride by remote
generations.—.MACAULAY.

CHICAGO, ILL.
A. W. BOWEN & CO.
PUBLISHERS AND ENGRAVERS
1903


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