San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 1/19/2010
ARTHUR EMMETT GORDON
A successful vineyardist is Arthur Emmett Gordon, a native of Wyandotte County, Kansas, now residing about two miles north of Acampo. In the historic Centennial Year of 1876, on December 28, he entered the family of M.A. and Belle (Llyons) Gordon, the son of a stock and cattle-man, who was also a merchant and a farmer. The family removed to Kokomo, Colo., where his father built the first sawmill in that region. Later they removed to Belleview, Idaho, in which locality his father engaged in stock-raising. He then moved northwest to Portland, Ore., and there the family lived between seven and eight years, finally migrating south and landing at Woodbridge. Here the lad attended the Lodi high school. Mr. Gordon lived to be seventy-three years old, survived by his wife, who is still alive at the age of sixty-five. Eight children made up the family of this worthy couple. Bert, the eldest, is deceased; Arthur Emmett was the second-born; and then came Harry, Frank, Grace, Vera, Phillip and Ruth.
In 1895 Arthur Emmett Gordon began to clerk for M.B. Henderson & Son, of Stockton; and later he was bookkeeper for Messrs. Hammond and Yardley, also of that city, with whom he remained seven years. He then bought an interest in C.B. Thompson's grocery, in Stockton, and after two years of experience with it, purchased the entire business, and conducted it until 1917, when he sold out.
Previous to selling his business, he had purchased some thirty acres of open land two miles north of Acampo, where he set out a vineyard, and in 1917 he traded his residence in Stockton for fifteen acres of vineyard, adjoining his first place. One-quarter of this area he has devoted to orcharding, and the entire tract is well irrigated. He built a small home on his ranch, into which he moved in 1917.
At Lodi, on June 3, 1903, Mr. Gordon married Miss Amy Geffroy, a native of Lodi and the daughter of Thomas and Hannah (Hammond) Geffroy. She attended the Lodi schools. Her father has passed away, but her mother is still alive. Her father and mother, of good Boston stock, came to California in early days, and her father raised sheep near Lockeford, in San Joaquin County. Later he moved to Lodi, and there Miss Amy was graduated with honors from the Lodi high school. Five children have blessed the union. Dorothy and Kenneth are students in the Lodi high school; Neil and Joyce are pupils in the grammar school; and Barbara is the youngest. Mr. Gordon is a Republican, and a member of Charity Lodge, I.O.O.F., in which he is a past-grand.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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