California Biographies 

Source:
History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California
by: C M Gidney - Santa Barbara. Benjamin Brooks - San Luis Obispo. 
Edwin M Sheridan - Ventura
Volumes II - Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, ILL., 1917

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HENRY W. GORDON. A prominent and successful representative of the lumber trade of Santa 
Barbara County, Henry W. Gordon has won his responsible position as manager of the Santa 
Barbara Lumber Company through industry, perseverance, and the exercise of good judgment 
and wise management. A son of Aexander [sic] J. and Alice G. (Jelliff) Gordon, he was born, 
January 28, 1876, in Brodhead, Wisconsin, where he was educated, being there graduated from 
the high school at the age of sixteen years.
Soon after leaving school Mr. Gordon learned telegraphy, and for five years thereafter worked 
as telegraph operator and ticket agent, being employed in different places in Wisconsin, Iowa, 
and Minnesota. Desirous of obtaining more congenial and lucrative employment, Mr. Gordon 
then became associated with a lumber company in Missouri, and while there was so observant, 
and paid such attention to his duties that he thoroughly mastered the details of that part of the 
business with which he was concerned. On, coming to Santa Barbara in 1911, Mr. Gordon 
assumed his present responsible position as manager of the Santa Barbara Company, and 
through his energy and enterprise has built up an extensive trade and secured an excellent 
reputation for business ability and judgment.
On December 19, 1900, at Redlands, California, Mr. Gordon was united in marriage with Miss 
Laura M. Knapp, and to them four children have been born, namely : Doris, Marjorie, Alice, and 
Malcolm.