San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 1/19/2010
MRS. ELIZA J. GORDON
A resident of California since 1868, Mrs. Eliza J. Gordon was born in Indiana. November 18, 1835. Her father, Josiah Anderson, a native of Kentucky, removed to Indiana where he was a farmer. Later he located near Burlington, Iowa, residing on a farm there until 1849, when he became a pioneer of California, passing away at the advanced age of eighty-nine years. He had married Lucinda Westfall, a native of Ohio who died in California, aged sixty-five years, leaving their ten children, three of whom are now living, namely: Eliza J., our subject, Newton and J.O. all of Stockton. Eliza J. grew up in Iowa and there attended the public schools. She was married in 1851 to Aaron Gordon who was born in Springfield, Ohio, August 21, 1830, a brickmason by trade. Removing to Iowa in an early day he was married there and followed his trade until the Civil War when he enlisted in Company A, 83rd Iowa Volunteer Infantry, serving throughout the war. He received an honorable discharge, after which he continued at his trade in Iowa until 1869, when he brought his family to California, coming via the Panama route and soon selected Stockton as his location. Here he engaged in contracting and building. Many of the important buildings of those early days are to his credit. He built his residence at 1452 South Hunter Street where he resided until he died August 10, 1909. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon were blessed with ten children, four of whom are living: Virgil, Mrs. Imogene Parker, Elmer E., and Mrs. Algena Loos, of Stockton. Mrs. Gordon continues to reside at her old home surrounded by her family and many friends who appreciate her for her merit and worth.
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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