Call Number:

AC482

Repository:

Princeton University Library: University Archives

Extent:

3 boxes

Language:

English

Date:

circa 1870-1902 (inclusive)

Creator:

Gordon, Clarence McCheyne (1870), Gordon family (Fannettsburg (Pa.)), and Gordon, Jeremiah Smith (Class of 1853)

Abstract:

The collection consists of letters written and received by members of the Gordon family of Fannettsburg, Pennsylvania between the 1870s and approximately 1905. Some of the letters cover the period when Clarence Gordon '1891, son of Jeremiah Smith Gordon '1853, was a student at Princeton, as well as when Mary Gordon and Clementine Gordon attended Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

Clarence McCheyne Gordon graduated from Princeton University in 1891 and completed a masters degree in 1893. He was born in 1870 in Fannettsburg, Pennsylvania. His parents were Jeremiah Smith Gordon, Princeton Class of 1853, and Margaret Beatty Kyle Gordon. Gordon became Professor of Physics at Lafayette College from 1909 to 1947. He died in 1961.

The Gordon family lived in Fannettsburg, in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Jeremiah Smith Gordon (1829-1904), Class of 1853, attended Princeton Theological Seminary after Princeton, and became a Presbyterian minister in Fannettsburg. Jeremiah was first married to Mary Catherine Montgomery Gordon (1840-1864). Their sons were James A. Gordon (b. 1861) and Robert (born and died in 1864). After Mary Catherine's death, Jeremiah Smith Gordon married Margaret Beatty Kyle Gordon (1839-1923) in 1867. The children of Margaret and Jeremiah were Mary Beatty (1869-1956), Clarence McCheyne (b. 1870), Clementine K. (b. 1872), John Kyle (b. circa 1877), Donald Smith (1883-1899), and a baby born in 1885 who did not survive.

Jeremiah Smith Gordon was a member of the Princeton Class of 1853.

The collection consists of letters written by and received by members of the Gordon family of Fannettsburg, Pennsylvania between the 1870s and the first decade of the twentieth century. The letters include some written and received by Clarence M. Gordon, Class of 1891, while he was an undergraduate and a graduate student at Princeton, and in later years when he taught at Williams College and Centre College. Present are letters to Clarence Gordon from family members, friends, and Princeton professors including Henry B. Fine, Henry D. Thompson, and H.S. Davis. The collection also includes letters written and received by sisters Mary Gordon and Clementine Gordon when they each studied at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Some of the letters were written and received by Margaret Beatty Kyle Gordon and Jeremiah Smith Gordon, the parents of Mary, Clarence, Clementine, John, and Donald.