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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: GORDON, Patrick L.
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Sandy Spradling
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September 26, 1999
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History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia and Representative
Citizens
W.S. Laidley
Richmond Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, ILL.
1911
p. 445-446
PATRICK L. GORDON, M. D.,* physician and surgeon, is one of the younger men
of science at Charleston, W. Va., but is recognized as a thoroughly
representative mem-ber of his profession. He was born at Cam-den, N. C.,
November 24, 1873, and is a son of Thomas George and Mary E. (Lamb) Gordon.
The Gordon family is of Irish extraction. Thomas Gordon, the
great-grandfather of Dr. Gordon, came from Ireland to the United States about
the close of the Revo-lutionary War. He settled in North Carolina and was one
of the early merchants at Camden. His death occurred September 26, 1825,
while he was on his way to Phila-delphia to purchase merchandise. He was
twice married, first to Mary Guilford and second to Frances Richardson. A
son of the second marriage, Samuel Gordon, became the grandfather of Dr.
Gordon. He married Ellen Brite, who survived him, living until she had seen
all their children established in life. With her husband she belonged to the
Methodist Episcopal church.
Thomas George Gordon, the eldest son and second child of Samuel and Ellen
Gor-don, was born in 1839, at Camden, N. C., and died June 25, 1910, in
Camden County. He was a farmer and stock dealer and was also in public life,
and after his military service was over, was elected sheriff of Camden
County. Mr. Gordon served in the Confederate Army under General Beaure-gard,
in the Civil War, and was wounded in the first battle of Bull Run, which
entitled him to a furlough. In his political views he was a Democrat. He was
married in Camden County, N. C., to Miss Mary E. Lamb, who died in 1889, a
woman of many virtues and a devoted member of the Baptist church. Of the
seven children born to this marriage but two survive: Samuel 0., who resides
at Norfolk, Va., and Patrick L.
Patrick L. Gordon was educated in the public schools of Norfolk, Va., and
private schools in the samecity, and when prepared to enter upon the study of
medicine, became a student in the College of Medicine, at Richmond, Va.,
where he was graduated with the class of 1898, afterward spending one year in
hospital work in that city. Dr. Gordon then entered into practice at Thomas,
W. Va., and later for several years, was surgeon for several coal companies
on Cabin Creek, with headquarters at Carbon, Va. After taking a
post-graduate course in ChicagQ Ill., in 1906, and a second course in New
York, in 1909, he came to Charleston.
Dr. Gordon was married at East St. Louis, Ill., to Miss Alice Zimmerman, who
was born in 1880, at St. Louis, and was educated in Missouri. She is a
daughter of Benjamin W. and Eleanor (Carr) Zimmerman, the former of whom
belonged to an old family of Virginia and the latter of Missouri. Mr. and
Mrs. Zimmerman reside at St. Louis, where he is engaged in the lumber
business. Dr. and Mrs. Gordon have three children: Ellen Waters, born March
17, 1905; Thomas George, born July 24, 1906; and Benjamin W. Z., born July
22, 1908. Dr. and Mrs. Gordon are members of the Episcopal church. He is a
Mason of high degree and a Shriner.
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