![]() My father died when I was six years old, a tragedy that thrust me, along with my mother, sister and brother, into a Mexican ghetto of East Los Angeles. I had the good fortune to accompany my father during the first five years of my life and believe me, there has never been a better introduction for a young boy to the beautiful landscape of the old West or a more adventurous introduction to freedom and independence of spirit. She was one of the first women graduates of what is now the School of Pharmacy at Drexel University in 1920. When money was short he painted murals in local post offices throughout the region. As they exited, he sold them his book, also titled The Infinite Plan. In his spare time, he invented a religion he called “The Infinite Plan.” Plying the byways of the southwestern United States during the depression years, William drew curious town folk into his tent for a modest fee of one dollar. William settled in Southern California and began a new career as a writer and painter. He sailed the Indian, South Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans in the engine rooms of cargo ships and, after his third voyage to the United States, decided to make North America his home. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He studied art in the early 1900’s, but being a restless adventurer, was drawn to work on the open seas apprenticed as a boiler maker. Gordon, was born in 1892 in the gold mining town of Grenfell, New South Wales, Australia. ![]()
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