CUYAHOGA COUNTY OHIO - BIO:  GORDON, REV. GEORGE 
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Nothing found for Beck, Brady, or Kininger. The only mention of 
Gordon is in volume II, page 242. This is Chapter III, The 
Underground Railroad 19 pages into the chapter is Iberia Whipping 
Case. 4th paragraph down is:
Rev. George Gordon, president of the college (Ohio Central College) , 
was present at the conclusion of this cruel ceremony. There is 
difference of opinion as to his attitude toward the affair. his 
friends claimed that he in no way encouraged the flogging., that 
indeed, he had made an effort to prevent it; while the victims and 
their sympathizers insisted that he witnessed it without protest. In 
November, 1861, he was fined $300 and cost of prosecution (from $1,
000 to $1,500 additional) and sentenced to jail for six months. 
Before the close of his term of imprisonment he was pardoned by 
President Lincoln.
At first he refused to leave his prison cell in the jail at Cleveland,
 because the pardon did not exonerate him. His health was rapidly 
failing and he was finally prevailed upon to leave the cell in order 
to save his life. His health improved, but he never fully recovered. 
he died in 1868.



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