Born in Springboro, Ohio, January 22, 1821 to John Gordon and Anna Armstrong. George married Sarah Eleanor Dunn and had 10 children. He passed away on October 29, 1925 in Eureka, Kansas. Mr. Gordon is a grandson of George Gordon, a soldier of the War for Independence. From Ohio he resided in Sullivan and Howard counties, Indiana, obtaining a higher education at Wabash College. He was a member of the Indiana constitutional convention of 1850, having been elected from a district composed of Howard and Cass counties, He moved to Montgomery County, Iowa in 1852 and was the first member of the general assembly furnished by this county. He was elected in 1861, by the republicans of Page, Adams and Montgomery counties. He resided in Iowa where until 1870, when he went to Eureka, Kansas. He bought a beautiful farm on Fall River. Mr. Gordon lost two sons in the Civil war, Walter Gordon of the 23rd Iowa Infantry, who died in a hospital in Memphis, and Eustace Gordon of the 4th Iowa Infantry, who was killed by a fragment of shell in the battle of Atlanta in 1864.