Person

Archibald Alexander Gordon (Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant, banker and trustee)

b. 1811-08-05 d. 1879-12-22

Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant, banker, and trustee. Virginia native. Married to Priscilla Christian Bullett Gordon in Shelby County, Kentucky, on April 25, 1843. Father of Penelope Gordon, Charles Bullett Gordon, Henry W. Gordon, Harriett Gordon, John L. Gordon, Helen Gordon, Edward E. Gordon, Fannie Gordon, and Archibald A. Gordon. Merchant in Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Jefferson County in 1850. Delegate to the Kentucky Whig Party convention in Louisville in 1856. Member of the Board of Directors of the Louisville Insurance Company in Jefferson County in 1858. Member of the Board of Trustees of the Presbyterian Female School of Louisville in Jefferson County in 1858. Merchant in Jefferson County in 1860. Dry goods merchant in partnership with James W. Gordon in A.A. Gordon and Company in Louisville in 1861. President of the Southern Bank of Kentucky in Louisville from 1858 to 1862.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 320B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3, p. 847.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 5, p. 118.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 7, p. 30B.

"Archibald Alexander Gordon (1811-1879)," Find A Grave, Memorial #93561937, accessed September 28, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93561937.

The Bankers’ Magazine and Statistical Register, ed. J. Smith Homans, vol. 12 (January 1858), 996.

The Bankers’ Magazine and Statistical Register, ed. J. Smith Homans, vol. 14 (January 1860): 995.

“Diamond Island for Sale.” Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY). May 25, 1859.

“For the Louisville Journal.” Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY). July 2, 1856.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Shelby County Marriages, Film #000259288, p. 1212.

Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, eds. Mary S. Lockwood and Susan Riviere Hetzel (Washington, D. C.: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1891-1939) vol. 38: 1901, p. 149.

“Louisville Insurance Company.” Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY). July 5, 1857.

“Presbyterian Female School of Louisville, KY.” Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY). Aug. 29, 1857.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 102, 290, 325.

KYR-0001-031-0051.

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Gordon, Archibald Alexander. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198572 (November 12, 2026).

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