Ventura County Republican Project: History and Genealogy

Ventura County Republican Project: History and Genealogy

"A Memorial and Biographical History of the Counties of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura, California" (1891), page 594.

Alonzo L. Gordon

Alonzo L. Gordon was born in Caspar, Mendocino County, California, June 22, 1865, and was reared and educated there. His parents are of Scotch ancestry. His father, Alexander Gordon, was born in Montreal, Canada, and his mother, nee Christine Martin, is also a native of Canada. They have five children, of whom Alonzo is the third. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon came to California and settled in Mendocino County, in 1863, and there Mr. Gordon bought a ranch of 1,000 acres and engaged in cattle-raising and butchering. They still own and reside on that ranch. In 1885 they purchased a fine ranch of 1,000 acres of level land, located eight miles east of Hueneme, in Ventura County.

Alonzo Gordon has been reared on a ranch, and is thoroughly informed in all matters pertaining to ranch life. He gives strict attention to business, and is an enterprising young man; is manager of this ranch, and has five men in his employ. Since its purchase, many improvements have been made on this property, a house and suitable out-buildings having been erected. Mr. Gordon is extensively engaged in stock-raising, and also raises some barley, corn and hay. They have some fine Holstein cattle; and their horses, of which they keep about fifty, are mostly the Black Lewis stock crossed with the Clydesdale. They have a Black Lewis horse that is considered a very fine animal.

The subject of this sketch is a member of the I. O. G. T. Politically he is a Republican.

****
Descendants of Alonzo Lennie Gordon

1 Alonzo Lennie Gordon b: 22 Jun 1865 in Caspar, Mendocino County, California d: 12 Mar 1953 in San Bernardino, California
.. +Sarah L. Wood b: 13 Apr 1863 in Illinois m: 1889 d: 17 Feb 1945 in Ventura, California
........ 2 Anita E. Gordon b: 29 Sep 1891 in California d: 02 Jun 1943 in San Bernardino, California
............ +Walter George Hentschke b: 03 May 1891 in California d: 17 Sep 1959 in San Bernardino, California
................... 3 Lois E Hentschke b: 25 Jan 1919 in San Bernardino, California d: 01 Feb 1999 in Redlands, San Bernardino, California
................... 3 Rita L Hentschke b: 1921 in San Bernardino, California
................... 3 Jean Hildegard Hentschke b: 04 Jul 1925 in San Bernardino, California d: Feb 1980 in Oxnard, Ventura, California
................... 3 Gail G Hentschke b: 1926 in San Bernardino, California
................... 3 Betty A Hentschke b: 1928 in San Bernardino, California
........ 2 Frederick W Gordon b: Dec 1893 in California d: 1905 in Hueneme, Ventura, California


Ventura County Republican Project: History and Rootsweb Genealogy posted by Jon Miller and Tony Larson.