Dr Frederick Elliott Gordon, MD ¹²

  Notes and Events:

• Relationship: greatgreat grandfather.

• Education: Princeton University, 1835-1836. Did not return to campus after Christmas break in 1836. Princeton records do not indicate where he went after that.

• Note: Co-founder, the Medical College of Alabama, 5 Apr 1859, Mobile County, Alabama. On April 5, 1859, the Probate Court of Mobile County granted a charter for a medical school with power vested in a board of trustees originally comprised by Drs. Josiah C. Nott, James Fountain Huestis, William H. Anderson, George A. Ketchum, Francis A. Ross, and Frederick E. Gordon. On November 14, 1859, the Medical College of Alabama opened in Mobile in a rented building. Authority was reassigned to the Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama in 1907. The Medical College of Alabama was transferred from Mobile to Tuscaloosa in 1920, and eventually to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).

• Note: The Medical College of Alabama faculty, 1859, Mobile, Mobile Co., AL. Professor of obstetrics and diseases of women and children.

• Burial Notes: Plot: Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Mobile Co., AL. Square 11 Lot 128

Frederick married Sarah Newbold Howard Conway, daughter of Capt. George Conway and Sarah Newbold Howard, on 4 Jan 1846 in Mobile, Mobile Co., AL.¹¹ (Sarah Newbold Howard Conway was born on 2 Sep 1823 in Port Conway, King George Co., VA, died on 3 May 1886 in Mobile, Mobile Co., AL and was buried in Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Mobile Co., AL.)