CLASS OF 1846

George Augustus Gordon died May 3 at his home in Somerville, Mass. He was the son of Ebenezer and Sophronia (Anderson) Gordon, and was born in Dover, N. H., July 17, 1827. In college he was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. After teaching and studying law for a short time, in April, 1847, he entered the employ of the Atlantic Cotton Mills at Lawrence, Mass., as civil engineer, and remained there three years. He then served the Amoskeag Company of Manchester, N. H., in the same capacity in 1850-1, the Water Power Company of Lewiston, Me., in 1851-4, and the Locomotive Works of Detroit, Mich., in 1854-5. In 1855-7 he was editor and proprietor of The Sentinel, a newspaper published at Lawrence, Mass., and then went to Charleston, S. C., as assistant editor of The Mercury. In 1860 he left the newspaper and became supervising engineer of a gold mine at Dahlonega, Ga. In 1862 the working of the mine ceased on account of the war, and Mr. Gordon for a short time superintended a mine in North Carolina. The military service of the Confederacy next claimed him, and in 1862-3 he was assistant quartermaster with the rank of captain in the First Regiment, Georgia State Line; in 1863-4 he served on the staff of Gen. H. C. Wayne, and in 1864-5 on the staff of Gen. Joseph E. Brown. He then resumed for about two years his work as mining engineer. Early in 1867 Captain Gordon returned North, and lived for a time in Lawrence, Mass. In 1869 he removed to Lowell to become chief of the advertising bureau of Dr. J. C. Ayer and Company, a position which he held until 1882. Soon after he removed to Somerville, where he was for a time connected with the business department of the Somerville Journal. The later years of his life were devoted to genealogical research. For seventeen years he was annually elected recording secretary of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, retiring from office in January, 1910, when he began to feel the burden of years. From boyhood he had taken an active interest in historical and genealogical matters, and few were as well informed on New England history and genealogy. He published genealogies of the Cook and Emerson families, and many historical pamphlets. He was a member of many historical societies and of several Masonic bodies, and was a communicant of Emmanuel Church, Somerville, and its senior warden from 1897 to 1911. Captain Gordon was married October 16, 1857, to Anne Farley, daughter of Nathaniel B. Gordon of Lawrence, who survives him, with three sons and two daughters.

Secretary, Dr. J. Whitney Barstow, Gramercy Park, New York