Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885,
Muhlenberg Co.

GEORGE GORDON, Muhlenburgh [sic] County, was born December 1, 1831, in 
Stockport, England.  He is the first of nine children (four sisters and one 
brother living in England) born to Joshua and Hester (Combs) Gordon, of 
Stockport, England.  Joshua was the son of John Gordon.  They were all 
weavers from grandfather.  George Gordon sailed from England, August 23, 
1856; landed in New York, October 2; went immediately to Fall River, Mass., 
where he took charge of forty-eight looms.  In April, 1857, he moved to 
Perry County, Ind., and took charge of seventy-five looms at Cannelton; 
there he remained most of the time for nine years.  January 11, 1862, he 
enlisted in Company G, Fifty-third Indiana Volunteer Infantry, commanded 
by W.O. Gresham; was discharged in December, 1862, at St. Louis, on account 
of disability, caused by a fall; was at Shiloh, seige of Corinth; at the 
seige of Memphis, and the battle of Davis Bridge on Latache River, 
Tennessee.  He was discharged as sergeant.  He returned to Cannelton where 
he resided until April, 1865, when he went to Gallatin, Tenn., where he 
worked until July of the same year.  In 1863 [sic] he was compelled to 
leave Owensboro, because of his being a Yankee.  On leaving Gallatin, he 
with his family proceeded to Cincinnati, where he worked for Gould, Pierce 
& Co., till January; then took charge of the building of Looms for Brommull.  
In April, 1868, he moved to Milan, Ind., and took charge of woolen-mills.  
In November of the same year he moved to Owensborough [sic], where he was 
general superintendent of the woolen-mills until 1870, when he went to
Cannelton, Ind., for five months; thence to Casaville, where he ran a 
factory one winter; thence to Owensborough, where he took one-fourth 
interest in the mills for a short time.  He then engaged in the saloon 
business for four years and a half.  In April, 1876, he moved to where he 
now resides in Central City, Ky.; purchased Central City park grounds and 
engaged in the hotel and saloon business.  In June, 1881, he made a trip 
to England and returned in the following November.  Mr. Gordon has lived 
a very eventful life.  During the war he was on several occasions employed 
as a spy; he boarded the tug Pink Barble and ascended the Cumberland as 
far as Nashville, Tenn.  On the return trip the tug was taken by the 
Confederates at Dover, and the men blindfolded and transferred to Tennessee 
River.  Mr. Gordon was married July 31, 1857, to Agnes Gibson, of 
Cannelton, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and a daughter of Daniel and 
Margaret (Duncan) Gibson, natives of Cannelton and Lenox, Scotland, 
respectively.  To this union were born six chidren, two living: Lucinda
(Fitzgibbons) and George E.  Mr. and Mrs. Gordon are church members, he 
of the Episcopal and she of the Presbyterian Church.  Mr. Gordon was 
formerly a member of the I.O.O.F.

Gordon Combs Gresham Gibson Duncan Fitzgibbons
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England MA Perry-IN Scotland

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