William L. Gordon

Birth Date

1837-11-23

Death Date

1930

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Hopkins County, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Married to Cordelia Gordon. Father of Ora G. Gordon and William L. Gordon, Jr. Attended the Hopkins Seminary and Bethel College. Admitted to the bar in 1859. Attorney in Hopkins County in 1860.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 798.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Seminary Princinct No. 4, p. 149B.
Memorial Record of Western Kentucky (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1904), 792-793.
"William Leonidas Gordon, Sr. (1837-1930)," Find A Grave, Memorial #60937888, accessed March 23, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60937888.

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