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BYRON W. GORDON, P. O. Georgetown, a young and enterprising farmer of this township, was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, March 5, 1847. His parents are Thomas W. Gordon and Minerva E. (Scoville) Gordon, the former of whom removed to this county when our subject was but four years of age, and for many years has been a prominent physician and surgeon of Southern Ohio. Mr. Gordon was reared in Georgetown, and there received the benefits of a good English education; when still young, he entered the office of the Southern Ohio Argus, edited by John G. Doren, with whom he served a four years’ apprenticeship. He subsequently followed his trade for some time, also attending school. In February, 1865, he enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Eighty-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was soon after made Hospital Steward. While stationed at Camp Chase, he was taken sick, and June 23, of the same year, was discharged on account of disability; which to a certain extent still continues. In the spring of 1869, he moved onto his present farm of seventy-two acres, in this township. Mr. Gordon was formerly a member of the Grand Army Republic Post, at Georgetown, and Hamer Grange, both organizations now extinct; he is now connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church at Georgetown; Franklin Grange P. of H., of Franklin Township, and is Republican in politics. He was united in marriage, March 4, 1869, to Sallie J. Hicks, a native of this county, and a daughter of John Hicks, born in Pleasant Township. One daughter was born to their union, Annie L., aged ten years. Mrs. Gordon departed this life in November, 1875. Mrs. Gordon’s parents reside with our subject on the farm.