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CHARLES H.
GORDON, M. D.
CHARLES H. GORDON, M. D., was
born in Scotland, October 16, 1833, the son of William Gordon. He was educated
in Christ School, London. He first studied medicine under Dr. Oldham, in
London, with whom he was seven years, a part of which time was spent in several
of the different hospitals of that city. He came to the United States in 1860,
landed in New York, where he remained a while and finally enlisted in the
United States army, and later became a Captain of the Third Rhode Island
Volunteer Cavalry, assigned to duty in the Department of the Gulf. He passed
through the Red River campaign and participated in all the engagements of the
Army of the Gulf. For nearly two years he was on the staff of General N. P.
Banks. After the war he went to Mexico and accepted the commission of Major
under General DeBordon of the liberal army under President Juarez. At the end
of fifteen months he resigned his commission, came to Colorado, stayed a short
time, and finally, in 1867, crossed the plains to California, arriving in Santa
Fe in the winter. He went to White Pines and Virginia City, where he remained
two years, practicing his profession with great success. In the spring of 1870
he came to Lodi, where he has been ever since.
Politically he is a Democrat and a
politician of considerable importance; he has been in a great many both State
and county conventions. During the last county convention held in Stockton, he
was elected chairman.
He was married to his present wife in
1880; her maiden name was Emily Frances Stafford, a daughter of Beanford
Stafford, who was the first sheriff of Nevada County. He was a Mississippian
when the war of the Rebellion broke out, became a Colonel in the Confederate
army, and was killed in front of Richmond in 1864. Mrs. Gordon is a native of
Nevada County, California.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Pages 562-563. Lewis Pub.
Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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