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Dr. Milton H. Gordon

Physician and Musician

Introduction

Dr. Milton H. Gordon

Dr. Milton H. Gordon

Dr. Milton H. Gordon was born September 17, 1911. He lived at 917 Broadway. After graduating from high school, he studied medicine at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. A fine musician, he worked his way through college playing banjo on cruise ships such as the Normandie and in other venues. As a young man, his address was 917 Broadway, over the Camden Credit Jewelers Store.

By 1947 Dr. Gordon had established a practice with offices at 12 North 27th Street in Camden and at the Wilson Building at Broadway and Cooper Street. He would continue to practice medicine at the East Camden address until the early 1970s. Dr. Gordon specialized in internal medicine and cardiology. Milton Gordon had married, and with wife Natalie lived at 201 Barby Lane in Haddonfield NJ in 1947. He moved to 12 North Drive in Haddonfield at some point in the 1960s, and later to a house in Cherry Hill NJ.

Dr. Milton H. Gordon passed away August 15, 1996 in Jerusalem, Israel.

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Camden Musician, 23, Begins Another Cruise

Camden Courier-Post

Article about Milton Gordon beginning a Mediterranean cruise, Camden Courier-Post, August 29, 1935

A Camden youth whose musical talent has won him a sizeable glimpse of the world, began a 68-day cruise to the Mediterranean, Egypt and the Holy Land this week.

He is Milton Gordon, 23, of Broadway, and a junior at Jefferson Medical College. Gordon is a member of the orchestra on the American Export liner Exochordis. He was a member of the orchestra on the French liner Normandie earlier this Summer and has played banjo on Bermuda cruise ships and made several transatlantic crossings prior to this year.

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