Freestone County, Texas
Biographies 



Source: A Memorial and Biographical History of McLennan, Falls, Bell and Coryell 
  Counties, Texas. Page: 923

  E. C. GORDON, one of the representative citizens of Fall county, is a son of 
John and Mary L. (Henderson) Gordon. The father was born in Caswell county, North 
Carolina, July 1, 1830, is of Scotch descent, and is connected with the famous 
Douglas family. He was a physician by profession, having studied under Drs. Ayers 
and Davis, of Salem Massachusetts, and graduated at the Jefferson Medical College 
in 1861. He practiced medicine in Danville and other cities in Mississippi, later
went to Milam county, Texas, and afterward to McLennan county, where he died 
October 11, 1891. The mother was born in Huntington, Tennessee, in 1839, and is 
connected with the Hawkins family, noted politicians of Tennessee. Her father 
and grandfather were noted Presbyterian ministers, and our subject has in his
library his grandfather's sermons, published in book form. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon 
were married in Danville, Mississippi, in 1860, and were the parents of ten 
children, viz.: E. C., our subject; Lena and Ashton, deceased in infancy; Arthur 
W., a resident of Texas; Clarence, deceased in infancy; Robert, Annie, Johnnie 
and Preston, residents of Texas.
  The subject of this sketch was born in Danville, Mississippi, August 18, 1861, 
received the usual advantages to be obtained in the common schools, and studied 
medicine in his father's office from 1878 to 1880. In the fall of the latter year 
he went to Missouri and attended a medical college at St. Louis until 1882, when
he entered the Philadelphia school.  He then settled at Steward's Mills, Freestone 
county, Texas, where he practiced his profession eighteen months; then moved to 
Rockdale, Milam county; in December, 1884, went to Durango, Falls county; and in 
May, 1890, came to his present ocation. where he is actively engaged in the 
practice of his profession.
  Mr. Gordon was married in Temple, Bell county, November 5, 1885, to Rilla, a 
daughter of J. N. White, and they have had two children: Helen and Mary, aged 
respectively five and three years. Politically, Mr. Jordan affiliates with the 
Democratic party, and has held the office of City Alderman; and religiously, both
he and his wife are members of the old-school Presbyterian Church.