Ventura County Biographies

Alonzo L. Gordon

Submitted by Sandy Neder

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    Alonzo L. Gordon was born in Caspar, Mendocino County, California, June 22, 
1865, and was reared and educated there. His parents are of Scotch ancestry. His 
father, Alexander Gordon, was born in Montreal, Canada, and his mother, nee 
Christine Martin, is also a native of Canada. They have five children, of whom 
Alonzo is the third. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon came to California and settled in 
Mendocino County, in 1863, and there Mr. Gordon bought a ranch of 1,000 acres 
and engaged in cattle-raising and butchering. They still own and reside on that 
ranch. In 1885 they purchased a fine ranch of 1,000 acres of level land, located 
eight miles east of Hueneme, in Ventura County.
    Alonzo Gordon has been reared on a ranch, and is thoroughly informed in all 
matters pertaining to ranch life. He gives strict attention to business, and is 
an enterprising young man; is manager of this ranch, and has five men in his 
employ. Since its purchase, many improvements have been made on this property, a 
house and suitable out-buildings having been erected. Mr. Gordon is extensively 
engaged in stock-raising, and also raises some barley, corn and hay. They have 
some fine Holstein cattle; and their horses, of which they keep about fifty, are 
mostly the Black Lewis stock crossed with the Clydesdale. They have a Black 
Lewis horse that is considered a very fine animal.
    The subject of this sketch is a member of the I. O. G. T. Politically he is 
a Republican.
 
BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTIES OF SANTA BARBARA, SAN LUIS 
OBISPO, AND VENTURA, CALIF. by Ida Addis Storke, 1891, p 594