JOHN I. GORDON, of
Mercer, was born in Mill Creek Township, this county, March 3, 1845,
and lived on the same farm, attending district school and the New
Lebanon Academy three terms prior to August, 1862, when he enlisted as
a private in Company A, One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Regiment
Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was discharged from the United States
service in December, 1864, on account of a gunshot wound received in
the battle of the Wilderness, Virginia. On returning from the army,
after his health had sufficiently recovered, he attended the State
Normal School at Edinboro, alternating with teaching until in the
spring of 1868, when he began the study of medicine in the office of
Dr. Giebner, of Sandy Lake. In 1869 he was elected recorder of deeds of
this county, and assumed his official duties the first Monday of
December of that year; following this he served three years as
prothonotary’s clerk, and on January 1, 1876, he assumed the management
and control of the Mercer Dispatch newspaper and is still connected
with that business, although doing but little in the office since
January, 1881. In 1880 he was a delegate to the Republican National
Convention at Chicago. The past seven years he has been engaged
principally in farming. He is interested in the Soldiers’ Orphan School
at Mercer, is a Republican, a member of the Second United Presbyterian
Church and is superintendent of its Sabbath schools.
Source: (History of Mercer County, 1888, page 666)
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