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ROBERT W. GORDON, manufacturer, McKeesport, son of Robert and Susan (Mackay) Gordon, natives of Aberdeen, Scotland, is a native of Canada, born near Montreal, where he was reared and educated. In 1869, when twenty-one years of age, he located at Montpelier, Vt., where after a short time he became assistant manager of the stock farm of J. H. Flagler and remained three years. In 1872 he came to McKeesport, and has since had charge of the stock and teaming department of the National Tube-works company. During his long service with this firm he applied himself diligently to his occupation, soon became an efficient veterinary surgeon and an excellent judge in treating the ailments so common to horses and cattle, and during the sixteen years he has been here has lost but one case out of hundreds that have been under his care. For several years Mr. Gordon has been using remedies of his own manufacture, and so great has been the demand for his horse and cattle powder and hoof ointment that he has been obliged to give his almost exclusive attention to the manufacture and shipment of his remedies. His business is destined to become one of the leading industries of McKeesport. Mr. Gordon married in 1875,Mattie A., daughter of Daniel Gould, of McKeesport, and has four children: Nellie, Robert, Edith and Earl H. He is a member of the C. P. Church; also a member of the A. O. U. W. and Heptasophs, and in politics is a republican.