Hailed as 'the outstanding representative of the Black population, and the most significant Black politician of his generation.'
Pen-keeper; engineer; Freemason; elected top of the poll to the St Catherine Parochial Board in 1885, in the first elections under modified Crown Colony Government; Chairman of the St Catherine Parochial Board in 1891.
Gall's News Letter, 1890 > > >
Joseph Milward Gordon was born in Spanish Town on June 30, 1852, and so was too young to be involved in the disastrous events of 1865. He died, at the early age, even for those days, of nearly forty-one, on June 9, 1893, just before Robert Love began his revitalising campaign in Jamaican politics.
As a boy, he attended one of the best schools in the island, the Kingston Collegiate School, as his father was a firm believer in the value of education. There he associated with boys who were later his colleagues in the business world, in Masonic affairs and in politics.
When he left school, he went into the offices of Clunie & Richmond, Civil Engineers, but left there in 1879, when he and his brothers inherited their father's pen- keeping and butchery business in Spanish Town.
When he left school, he went into the offices of Clunie & Richmond, Civil Engineers, but left there in 1879, when he and his brothers inherited their father's pen- keeping and butchery business in Spanish Town.
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