Dudley Johnston Gordon g. 19 Du 1861 a. a. 13 Meurzh 1939
Eus Rodovid BR
| Lignez | Gordon |
| Reizh | gourel |
| Anv a-bezh d'ar c'hanedigezh | Dudley Johnston Gordon |
| Kerent
♂ Daniel Kelley Gordon [Gordon] g. 1838 a. a. 1915 | |
Darvoudoù
19 Du 1861 ganedigezh: State of Maine, United States
eured: ♀ Emma Sophia Spangler [Spangler] g. 1872 dou. 1942
5 Meurzh 1892 bugel: New Amsterdam, WI, USA, ♂ Daniel Jacob Gordon [Gordon] g. 5 Meurzh 1892 a. a. 1 Genver 1961
11 Genver 1897 bugel: Galesville (Wisconsin), Trempealeau County (Wisconsin), USA, ♂ Walter William Gordon [Gordon] g. 11 Genver 1897 a. a. 16 Gwengolo 1963
1898 bugel: New Amsterdam, WI, USA, ♀ Anna Gordon [Gordon] g. 1898
18 Gouere 1899 bugel: New Amsterdam, WI, USA, ♀ Margaret Ellen Gordon [Gordon] g. 18 Gouere 1899
20 Kerzu 1902 bugel: Galesville (Wisconsin), Trempealeau County (Wisconsin), USA, ♀ Polly Effie Gordon [Gordon] g. 20 Kerzu 1902
12 C'hwevrer 1904 bugel: Galesville (Wisconsin), Trempealeau County (Wisconsin), USA, ♂ Robert Lincoln Gordon [Gordon] g. 12 C'hwevrer 1904
25 Eost 1906 bugel: Galesville (Wisconsin), Trempealeau County (Wisconsin), USA, ♀ Sylvia Emma Gordon [Gordon] g. 25 Eost 1906
1908? bugel: Galesville (Wisconsin), Trempealeau County (Wisconsin), USA, ♂ Richard Gordon [Gordon] g. 1908? a. a. 1980?
11 Genver 1913 bugel: Galesville (Wisconsin), Trempealeau County (Wisconsin), USA, Family moved to Dagget Brook, Minnesota that year, so Lester could have been born there., ♂ Lester Honhart Gordon [Gordon] g. 11 Genver 1913 a. a. 11 C'hwevrer 1979
25 Genver 1916 bugel: Daggett Brook Township (Crow Wing County Minnesota), USA, ♀ Emogene F. Gordon (Jelacic, Gideon) [Gordon] g. 25 Genver 1916 a. a. 19 Eost 2007
13 Meurzh 1939 marvidigezh: Daggett Brook Township (Crow Wing County Minnesota), United States
Notennoù
Newspaper: Brainerd Tribune, March 16, 1939 page 4 column 2 Dudley J. Gordon Passed Away The picturesque old gentleman Dudley J. Gordon died on March 13 at the home of his son, Dan Gordon, in Daggett Brook township at the age of 78 years. Dudley J. Gordon was born in Maine on November 19, 1861, ""of a generation of lumber-jacks" he would laughingly declare. Mr. Gordon, like all his family, has been a lumber-man from the time he was eighteen years old. He became one of the best known river drivers on the Eau Claire, the St. Croix and Chippewa and the Black rivers. Last year he wrote for the county historical society a nine-page monograph, "Reminiscences of a Wisconsin Woodsman", giving a graphic and comlete description of the method and customs of the camps of his day in that locality. The winter of 1937 to 1938 he made a model-in-miniature logging camp of five log buildings--completely equipped, which is the chief attraction of our county's history museum. For this gift he was made an honorary life member of the historical society. He married Emma Spangler of La Crosse, Wis., and she bore him ten children: Daniel, Jacob, Anna Mary, Walter William, Margaret, Paul, Robert, Sylvia, Richard, Lester and Emma Jean, all now married but one son, Lester. Walter Gordon lives in Brainerd near the Lowell school; Dan is chairman of the Crow Wing county agricultural conservation committee and operates a farm at Daggett Brook. Emma Jean is Mrs. Jacob Jesloskey, her husband being employed at the Hanson Feed Company; Margaret married George Edward Wolhart of South Long Lake. There are also many grandchildren. He was a genial, kindly man, very well liked and highly respected, a natural leader in whatever group he was in. He came to Brainerd in the spring of 1897, and spent the season in looking about the wooded area. The lumbering business was about finished so he decided to buy a farm. He bought 80 acres about 14 miles southeast of Brainerd, near Daggett Brook, and built a large house. His wife and family joined him in the fall and he has been farming there ever since. His wife preceeded him in death. Funeral arrangements have not been made on account of the severe stormy weather and deep snow. The body was brought to Brainerd today by D. E. Whitney as the roads had been partly plowed out.
GORDON, DUDLEY (of Daggett Brook) Given by Himself, Recorded by Rose Parker, Dec. 1937 The Museum has two notably fine pieces of handwork,- a miniature logging-sleigh and load of logs, and a miniature logging camp. Both the work and free-will gift of Mr. Dudley Gordon of Daggett Brook. This Gordon family's native hearth is the old state of Maine,-"three generations of lumber-jacks, as they proudly proclaim". The father's name was Daniel Johnston Gordon. He had five children, but only two of them are related to our county history. Daniel Kelly Gordon, the eldest of the five, was born in the state of Maine, and not long after, in the neighboring province of Nova Scoti was born Rosanne Irvin. The two met and were married. Four children were born to them, Daniel, the 34d, Anna Mary, Margaret Burr, and Eliphalet. The two daughters are deceased, one son lives in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and one in this county. Daniel came to the county in 1897, looked about for awhile and located on a farm near Daggett Brook. Dudley Gordon was also born in Main, November 19, 1861, the year after Daniel 2nd had married. Daniel had enlisted to fight for the North in the Civil War. They had been lving in La Crosse, but he took his family back to Maine, so he could enlist from there,-would not be drafted. He served two years under the command of General Sherman, and marched with him to the sea. "He used to paint it pretty black--the way in which Sherman destroyed the South. "We whipped 'em,-and then destroyed their lands'". The older Daniel was wounded, and carried a 'game knee' for the remainder of his days. "We've always been good, staunch democrats", his son declares, "Although I never was a radical. I think I could put up quite a political argument along those lines whenever the question was presented. And we've always been Presbyterians, too". (By which, it is easy to see these are dyed-in-the-wool Scotch Gordons, if we go far enough back.) Daniel Johnston Gordon died in 1914, and his wife followed, the same year. Both are buried at La Crosse. Dudley, like all his family, became a lumber-jack, following that work from the time he was nineteen. He came out to La Crosse and bossed a crew of seven or eight men, for nine years. He married Emma Spangler in La Crosse. She was born in Burlington, Iowa, in 1888, In the spring of 1897 Dudley came to Brainerd, and spent the season looking about. The lumbering-business was about over with, so he decided to buy a farm. He bought eighty acres about fourteen miles south-east of Brainerd, near Daggett Brook. On the SE quarter of Section two he built a seven room house, Emma joined him in the fall, and they've farmed there ever since. They have plenty of stock,-cows, pigs, chickens, and a pet dog, black "Curly". Their still unmarried son, Lester, cares for everything. There were ten children born to this couple,-Daniel Jacob, Anna Mary and Walter William were born in La Crosse. Margaret, Pauly, Robert (who died three yrs. ago.), Sylvia, Richard, Lester and Emmajean, were all born on the Daggett Brook farm, and all are now married and in homes of their own, but Lester, who looks after the old folks. Walter lives in Brainerd near the Lowell School. He is married, works in the N>P> shops and has three children. Emmajean, the youngest married Jacob Gegloskey, a Bohemian, and also lives in Brainerd. He is employed at the Hanson Feed Companyt.*see note [*note This should be Stephen Jelacic, lives in Wrights Park. Dudley Gordon died at his Daggett Brook farm March 15, 1939. Buried at Daggett Brook.] "My boyhood home lay alongside 'Council Bay', so called because several important councils between the U.S. Gov't and the Winnebago Indians were held in that neighborhood. There was a Winnebago reservation near by. They were known as 'Decorah's Band', as that was the name of their old chief." "Decorah was gone before my time, however. Their chief, at the time I lived there was a great, handsome, intelligent fellow called 'Doctor John' Thunder. I used to play with his son, Tom Thunder." "Tom's mother was also a fine-looking woman--very tall and stately, full of dignity." "'Doctor John' knew a good bit of medical lore. I once asked him to tell me how he used all the herbs he had been gathering, and which so often proved efficacious in treating the ills of the neighborhood. He laughed and said, "If me tell White Boy, then White Boy know as much as Injun.'" "In all that region were many small grist-mills. Each mill had to have its own little pond which soon became stagnant water. Because of these, it was claimed, there were many sever cases of diphtheria. 'BLACK DIPTHERIA', we called it then. Many deaths resulted, especially among children. But 'Doctor John' lost not one if HIS cases, which raised his standing as a healer, considerably. Of course, he was not a licensed physician, and would be in trouble with the authorities, these days, but the laws governing those things were not as strict when I was a boy." "The Winnebagos are a peaceful tribe--a very fine people. The Ojibwas or Chippewas were more aggressive, and drove them out of their hunting grounds near the bay. But the government interfered, and re-instated them there. Nowadays they are on the increase. The do nice bead-work, and make beautiful baskets of all kinds.
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eured:
douaridigezh: >24 Kerzu 1904, Galesville (Wisconsin), Trempealeau County (Wisconsin), USA, Decorah Prairie Cemetery
marvidigezh: 24 Kerzu 1904, Galesville (Wisconsin), Trempealeau County (Wisconsin), USA
♀ Margaret Burr Gordon (Hanson) douaridigezh: C'hwevrer 1934, Holmen (Wisconsin), La Crosse County (Wisconsin), USA, Green Mound Cemetery
marvidigezh: 24 C'hwevrer 1934
eured: ♂ Daniel Jacob Gordon
marvidigezh: 24 Gouere 1983, Wisconsin?, United States
eured: ♂ Walter William Gordon
marvidigezh: 3 Kerzu 1973, Nisswa, Minnesota, United States, Stroke
eured: ♀ Polly Effie Gordon
marvidigezh: 8 Eost 1986, United States
eured: ♀ Sylvia Emma Gordon
marvidigezh: 29 C'hwevrer 1980, United States
