Jonathan Gore
Jonathan Gore is a native of Kentucky; born in Bullett County February 22, 1833. He went with Gen. Wm. Walker on his filibustering expedition to Nicaragua in ’56; form there he went to New York; thence to Louisiana, and in ’57 immigrated to Kansas, landing in Leavenworth July 3rd; in August took a claim near Spring Hill. In ’61 he went to New Mexico, returning the same year. In ’63 he went to Colorado; from there to Utah; then to Idaho, and to Virginia City, Montana, where he witnessed the hanging of twenty-two desperados; thence to British Columbia, and finally on the 5th day of September ’66 he left the mountains, came down the Missouri River in a Macinaw boat with twenty others; came to this county where he has since resided, engaged in farming and practicing law. Nov. 10, 1858 he married Miss Sallie Bluejacket, daughter of Charles Bluejacket. He has a family of four children living.
Atlas Map of Johnson County, Kansas, E. F. Heisler and Co., 1874, p. 49.
