When Augustus Gordon was born on 13 August 1857, in London, England, United Kingdom, his father, James Gordon, was 28 and his mother, Elizabeth Louisa Wilson, was 27. He married Lorena Elizabeth Nebeker on 4 December 1879, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He immigrated to United States in 1863 and lived in Cache, Utah, United States in 1920. In 1897, at the age of 40, his occupation is listed as newspaper editor for the logan herald and the salt lake tribune in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. He died on 10 November 1929, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States.
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Scottish: habitational name from Gordon in Berwickshire, named with Welsh gor ‘spacious’ + din ‘fort’.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Gourdon in Saône-et-Loire, so called from the Gallo-Roman personal name Gordus + the locative suffix -o, -ōnis.
English (of Norman origin): alternatively, said to be a nickname from a diminutive of Old French gourd ‘heavy, dull, sluggish’ (compare 8 below).
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