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LIlUtAHV OK AMKHIOAN lilCKJRAPHY. Kichniond,

'a. In lH!M»-liM(3 he was profi'^snr of niedieal fheniiHtry; and since 1!>07 has lectured clinical medicine at the I'niversily i-ollejje of medicine of Richmond, N'a. lie is

«)n

the autlior of

Abstract of Lecture?* on t'hem-

a Te,t-lHM»k of Chemintry for Stuand Practitioners of Medicine. Jones, William T., soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was horn Feb. 20, 1842, in Corydon. Ind. He serve*! in the army as lieutenant, captain aiicl major of the seventeenth Indiana volunteers. He was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of Wyoming in 1S05». In 1871-73 he was a territorial delegate from Wyoming

istiy;

tU'iits

She

licly burnt on its appearance in 18U.>, by onler of Ceneral T«'rry, as an objectionable jind incendiary publication. She is also the iiiithor of Flowers of Hope and Memory; Christmas Poem for Children; Riclunond. Her (Jlory ami Her (Jraves; and Cseful Maxims for a N«>ble Life.

Jordan, David Starr, educator, naturalist, author, was l)orn .Ian. Il>,

«-(diege president,

in

ls.*>l,

juitriot,

was born

in

dent

1731

tional acadenncian.

Jordan, Ambrose Latting, lawyer, jurist, senator, was horn in 17U1 in Hillsdale, He attained eminence as a lawyer of

N.Y.

New York City. He was a nieniln'r of the state assembly; servml as a state senator; was judge of the c<iurt of app<-als; an<l attorney general of the state. He died July Jt»,

ISti'i.

in

New York

City.

Jordan, Chester B., lawyer, journalist, state senator, governor, was l»orn Oct. lii, 1830. in Crdebrook. N.II, In IHOt) he graduated from Kimltall

union academy; and has reeeive<l the deof A.M. and

grees «^

^

^™

LL.I).

from Dart

mouth

ctdlege and .M.Se. fr«un the New llam|)shire colleg«' of

agricultural an

'

7

Stanford

X

^

versity.

new form of silver bnllion certificate. died Feb. H. 11)03. in New York City.

he

H<>

Jordan, Mrs. Cornelia Jane, atithor, poet, was l)orn .Jan. II. 1S30. in Lynchburg. 'a.

presi-

univer-

during

.lunior luii18nri !)7 In

was commissioner

in cliargi- of tlic fur seal invest igations. He was president of the

California

academy

of

He is a noted naturalist an*! has published about three hundre<l scientific papers and monographs. He is the autlior of A Manual of the Vertebrate Animals of the Northern Cnitt-d States; S<-ientiflc Sketches; Contribut ions to American lehthyologv; Footnotes t' Leaves, a volume sci«'nces.
 * .oet. was iMirn in 1S3,"» in New York.

of piM'ins.

Jordan, Elizabeth Garver, journalist, auiKirn May !>. 1807, in Milwaukee. For ten years she was nn the editorial the New Yf»rk World. .She is the etiitor of Harpc r's Ra/aar. .She is the author of Tales of the City Room; Tales <»f a Cloisl«'r; Tales of Di-sfinv; and .Mav Elverson,

was

lln»r,

Wis.

stair of

Her

R.x.k.

Jordan, Frances, merchant, antiquarian, author, was l>orn .Xug. 28, 1843, in Philadelpliia. Pa. He is an importer of chemicals of Philadelphia. Pa. He is also well-known ns a numisnnitist aiul antii|uarian. He is the author of The Remains of an .Al>original Town of Rehobeth. Del. lawyer, congressman, in I'nion c<ninty. Pa. the Miami university of Oxford, Ohio. In 1883-85 he wis a .rypresenlative from Ohio to the forty eighth ••onirress as a deiiux-rat. He died Dec. 3, isno, by beiny killed in elevator accident in Cincinnati. Ohio.

Jordan,

was lie

Jordan, Conrad N., banker, founder, was born .April iJO. is:i(l, in New York City. In 188."»-87 he was treasurer of the I'nited States at Washington, H.C.: and devised a

the

1884 tH; and since ISni has been president of the Leiand

Halifax, N,C. He was a delegate to the continental congress in 178(»-81 from North Candina, succeeding his brother Allen, lie died in 1801 near Raleigh, X.(

st.'ite

of

sitv of Indiana

in

Jongc-rs, Alphonse, painter, artist, was lM»rn Nov. 17, 1S72, in Kranw, In 181>7 u' emigrated to America; and has a studio in New York City, lie is an associate na-

He was

N.Y.

(iainesville,

territory to the forty-second congress as a ri*pnhlican. Jones, Willie,

363

a N'irginia poet whose volume, Corinth, and Other I'oems of the War, was pubis

lK)rn

Isaac

May

M.,

H.

183."),

was eilucated

Jordan, jurist,

stock,

was Va.

at

James

Henry, soldier, lawyer, Dec. 21. 1842. in Woodserved as a soldier in the

Iwjrn

He