Photograph, Dannevirke Borough Council Mayor Alexander Lawrence Gordon

Alexander Lawrence Gordon, Mayor of Dannevirke for a single term (1902-1903)

MR. ALEXANDER LAWRENCE GORDON, a former Mayor of Dannevirke, was born on the Waipori goldfields, Otago, in the year 1869, and was the son of a ship-builder. He was educated at public schools in Oamaru, and afterwards learned the cabinet-making trade in the North Island. In 1886 he established himself in business in Dannevirke, and for many years conducted a successful business as a cabinet-maker and furniture manufacturer, under the style of Messrs A. L. Gordon and Company. Mr. Gordon died in the year 1905, and left a widow and four children.

Source: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand, NZETC