S. Anna Gordon

Mrs. S. Anna Gordon was born in Claremont, Mass., 9 January 1832. She was a physician and author. At an early age she moved to New York with her parents. Before her marriage she was a teacher. She was in charge of the ladies' department in Rock River Seminary and in Ripon College and was active in opening a normal school. She was married in Wisconsin in 1858 to W. A. Gordon M. D. After her marriage she studied medicine with her husband. She assisted him in his practice. In 1859 and 1860 they were connected with the Smithsonian Institute, taking meteorological motes. For one year she was associate editor of "Central Wisconsin." She joined her husband while he was stationed in Louisville, Ky. during the Civil War where she assisted with caring for wounded and sick soldiers. During that time, she also studied art. She was a weekly contributor to the literary columns of the Louisville "Sunday Journal." In 1882 and 1883 she was State editor of the Missouri Woman's Christian Temperance Union on the Chicago "Signal." During her residence in Denver, Col. she was assistant superintendent of Chines work in that city. She is author of the book Camping in Colorado and several papers and poems.

Dianne Shapiro, from "A Woman of the Century: fourteen hundred-seventy biographical sketches accompanied by portraits of leading American women in all walks of life" edited by Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore, published by Charles Wells Moulton, 1893