History of Northern Wisconsin  1881

 

JOHN GORDINIER, farmer and stock breeder, P.O. Waupaca; was born Nov. 22, 1822, in Glen, Montgomery Co., N.Y.  Orphaned when ten years of age; he at thirteen went to live with a brother in Erie Co., N.Y.; at twenty-one he returned to Montgomery County and spent two years; then, in Erie Co., N.Y., he married Juliette Sibley and settled in that county as a farmer; in the fall of 1855 he removed to Green Lake Co., Wis., and in the spring of 1856 settled on the 220 acre farm in Lind which he still owns.  In 1868 he came to Waupaca, practiced veterinary surgery two years; was elected County Sheriff in 1869, served out his term, and then a term as Under Sheriff; in the fall of 1874 he was made County Superinten-dent of the Poor, and has since resided upon and been in charge of the County Farm in Little Wolf Township; Mr. and Mrs. Gordinier have four living children; Mr. Gordinier is one of the best known horsemen in the state, as his experience in the business dates back to 1842; while an Erie County farmer he exhibited nearly every year at the County Fair, held at Buffalo, and never but once failed in securing the first prize for a matched carriage tem; for his one disappointment he was consoled by being told by Millard Fillmore, then President, that the aware was rightfully his; for years Mr. Gordinier was the only man in Western New York who sent horses to the New York City market; he brought with him to Wisconsin the trotting stallion St. Lawrence, and has since constantly bred Messenger, Black Hawk and Morgan horses; he is now the owner of seventeen fine animals, among them the noble stallion Alar Clay,