Brief Life History of Joseph Smith
When Joseph Smith Gordon was born on 12 January 1853, in Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, William Reid Gordon, was 29 and his mother, Annie Duncan Frater, was 27. He married Rosalia R Kimball on 20 October 1878, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He immigrated to Vermont, United States in 1895 and lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1870. He died on 6 August 1943, in Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States.
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- Joseph Gordon, "Scotland Census, 1861"
- Legacy NFS Source: Joseph Smith Gordon - Individual or family possessions: birth: about 12 January 1853; Lanark, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Joseph S. Gordon, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1864 · St. Albans Raid
St. Albans Raid took place on October 19, 1864. It was a Confederate raid from Canada into Union territory. Confederate soldiers that were in Canada raided the town of St. Albans killed one person and robbed three banks.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
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).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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