Alameda County Biographies

George W. Gordon

Transcribed by Pat Houser

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George W. Gordon, a prominent horticulturist near Haywards, was born in Orange County, New 
York, September 20, 1843, and was reared and educated in Middletown, in his native county, 
until 1861, when he enlisted as a private soldier in the First New York Mounted Rifles, and 
served as such until 1864, when he was mustered out of service at City Point, near Richmond, 
Virginia, and returned to his native State, where he engaged in the dry-goods trade until 1866.  
He then went to Cleveland, Ohio, where he continued in the mercantile trade until 1870.  Going 
then to Chicago he was manager of a mercantile house there for eighteen years.  His ambition 
led him to exert his utmost energies to attain the front rank of the mercantile circle; but this 
impaired his health, so that by the year 1888 he concluded to come to California; and hither he 
came, locating at Haywards and purchasing sixteen acres of good land, where he devotes his 
entire attention to horticultural pursuits.  He raises a large and choice variety of all the 
citrus fruits.  He is a member of the Fruit-Growers� Association of Haywards.  Politically he 
is Republican, and in May 1890, he was elected a member of the Board of Town Trustees.  He is 
also a prominent member of the G.A.R., and affiliates with the F.& A.M. of Chicago.  He is the 
youngest of five sons in his father�s family, and has three sisters.  He was married in Chicago, 
May 7, 1874, to Miss Julia Hubbard, a native of that city.  Her father was one of the first 
builders and promoters of public enterprise in that city.

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California, Lewis Publishing Co., 1891, Page 743