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since

union army during the civil war. He has het'n state's attorney; and since 1895 has bfcn a judge of the supreme court of In-

agricultural experiment station; iSyO has been director of the agricultural experiment station.

diana.

author of The Feeding of Animals. Jordan, William George, journalist, author, was Iwrn March 6, 1804; in New York

May

Jordan, John, antiquarian, was born

lie was one 1808, in Philadelpliia, Pa. of the ohlest surviving nieinbi'rs of the Hisl«)ri('ul society of Pennsylvania at tlic time of his death, which occurred March 23, 1890, 8.

Piiihidflpliia, Pa.

in

Jordan, John Woolf, antiquarian, author, was born Sept. 14, 1840, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is editor of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History. He is the author of Friedensthal and its Stockaded Mill; A Red Rose from the Olden Time; Something ahout

Trombones; and Occupation of New York the British.

liy

Jordan, Julius, musician, composer, was Nov. 10, 1850, in Willimantie. f<mn. He is highly successful as a conductor and He is the comteacher of Providence, H.I. poser of Kip N'an Winkle, a niniantic comemany songs and church mudy-oiK'ra; an«l

liorn

sic.

Jordan, Richard, Quaker, preaclu'r, author, Ixirn Dec. 19, 1750, in Norfolk county, He wrote an autobiography, Journal of Richard Jordan. He died Oct. 14, 182G,

was Va.

Newton,

in

Jordan, was born N.Y. He of Boone,

N..T.

Richard Francis, lawyer, 19, 1850, in (Hens

March

jurist,

Falls,

became city attorney and solicitor Iowa, which position he filled for nine years. He was presi«lent of the school lM)ard for three years: and a memlxT of the puhlie library board for ten years. Sept. 5, 1901, in Boone, Iowa.

He

City.

In

New He

York is the

1898-99 he was editor in-chief of

Saturday Evening Post of Philadelphia, and in 'l 905 06 was editor of The SearchPa. Since 1884 he has been engaged in light. preparation of Jordan's (luide to Poetry and Prose. He is the author of The Kingship of Self Control; Tlic Majesty of Calmness; and The Power of Trutli. the'



Jorgenson, Joseph, surgeon, state legislacongressman, was born Feb. 11. 1844, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was an assistant surgeon in the United States army in 1865-88. He settled in Virginia; and was elected a representative in the state legislature in In 1877-83 he was a representative 1871. from Virginia to the forty-fifth, forty sixth and forty-seventh congresses, as a republiHe died in Virginia. can. Joris, Adrian, colonial governor. In 162324 he was a Dutch colonial governor of New tor,

York.

was

Joseffy, Rafael, musician, composer,

July 3, 18.5.3, in Hungary. In delicacy Since 1879 he has of touch he is unexcelled. live<l in New York City; and now teaches in He has composed conservatory. national the lK)rn

a score of salon-pieces for piano.

Joseph, Antonio, merchant, jurist, state was born Aug. 25,

senator, congressman, 1H40, in Taos, N.Mex.

died

He

received his earif at

Lux's

education

academy

Jordan, Thomas, soldier, journalist, author, was lK)rn Sept. lU), 1819, in Luray ValHe was a confederate ofTicer; an*! ley, Va. attained the rank of general. He was the author of Tiie South, its Products, Commerce, and Resources; and Campaigns of fJeutenantdeneral Forrest. He died Nov.

in

Taos;

at-

tended Bishop 1.4»mmy's school in Santa Fe, N.Mex.. for two years; attended Webster

college

in St.

Thomas Walden,

Ixmis county. Mo., for four years; and completed a commercial course at the Bryant

president,

was

and

burn. Va.

In

28,

1895, in

New York

City.

educator, college 1848, in New1872-78 he was professor of (Jreek and T.afin at the Kentucky W«'sleyan college: and in 1879-81 was joint principal of the Science hall female college at Shelbyville, Ky. In 1882-80 he was professor of f Jreek and Latin; and in 1880 89 was president of the F.mory and Henry college. Since 1889 he has l»een dean of the college and professor of Tjitin langmiges and literature at the university of Teniiensee. Jordan, Whitman Howard, educator, scienti'^t, author, was Itorn Oct. 27. 1851, in Raymond, Maine. In 1878-79 he was nn assistant of the Connecticut agricultural experiment station. In 1879-80 he was an instructor of the university of Maine; and in 1881-85 was professor of agricultural chemistry at the Pennsylvania state cfillege. In 1885-90 he was director of the Maine

Jordan,

Inirn

Dee. 2,

cial

St ration college

commerof

St.

Mo. For eight years he was county judge of Taos county, N.Mex., and for many years was a representative and senator in the territorial legislature: and was president of that YMy. In 1S.S5-95 he was a representative from r.ouiR,

New

.Mexico

to

the

forty-ninth,

fiftieth,

fifty first, fifty-second and fifty lhinl congresses ns a <I«'inoerat. He is now engjiged in general merchandise at Ojo Caliente, N. M. S. lie ,lie,I April 18. 1910.

Lionel, lawver, author, poet, 20, 1870. "in St. Louis. Mo. in San Francisco. Cal. He is the author of The Lion at the Well and Turquoise and Iron, a volume of poems.

Josaphare,

was horn May lie practices

law



Thomas

Jefferson, clergyman, born April 29, 1829, in Coshocton, N.YJoslin,

was In

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