Dr. Robert Earl Gordon, (1873-1951).
thousand babies which the doctor had delivered in his first ten years of El Paso practice. His lifetime total was about 4,500, and there are today three generations in the community in several instances, all boasting they "were Dr. Gordon babies."
Another highlight in Dr. Gordon's activity-packed career was the establishment of the Han-Gon-Tan Tuberculosis Sanitarium, the first in Woodford County and perhaps the first such private institution in Illinois. It opened May 7, 1908, at 12 East First Street, and was patterned after the Ottawa Tent Colony. It had only a two-year run, but it
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