Atlas of Steuben County, Indiana 1880 (reprint) P.53 clm1    Richland
Township
        
        GORDON, HORATIO E.,     son of William G. Gordon and Mary Hedden, was born in
Newark, N.J., October 12,1812; came to Ohio, with his parents, at the age
of sixteen, and continued to live with his parents till he was
twenty-eight.  In August,1840, he married Miss Ann E., daughter of John R.
and Lydia Sleeper, and came to this township, when he entered 120 acres of
Government land, where he now lives, and 160 acres in York Township, which
he afterward disposed of.  They had five children-- Emma A., Minerva
A.(deceased), Horatio N. (deceased), Rush W., William G.(deceased).  On the
9th of March, 1865, Mr. Gordon was united in marriage with Mrs. Harriet A.
Holt, daughter of Daniel and Clarissa Peck, of Morrow County, Ohio;  they
have had four children-- Durand D. (deceased), Alida, Clarissa P., Orran O.
 His father was a native of England; came to New Jersey in 1807; married in
1809, and moved to Knox County, Ohio, in 1828, where he still resides at
the advanced age of 107 years.  His mother died in the Spring of 1876, aged
eighty-three.  The subject of our sketch is a Republican, a man of sterling
qualities; has held the office of Justice of the Peace in his township for
fourteen consecutive years.  He resided for a time in West Liberty, Ohio;
also was, for two and a half years, a merchant in Butler, Indiana.  He is
the fortunate possessor of 320 acres of as fine and well-watered land as
there is in Steuben County; owns 120 acres in Nebraska, also a fine
property in Butler, Indiana.

Submitted by J.A. Childers