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 JORDAN

JORDAN

ralist of the geological surveys of Indiana and Ohio, 1877 ; assistant to the U.S. fish commission, 1877-88 ; professor of biology at Indiana university, 1879-85 ; special agent of the U.S. census bureau, 1880, investigating marine industries on Pacific coast ; president of Indi- ana university, 1885-91, and in the latter year accepted the presidency of Leland Stanford, Jr., university, Cal. He was president of the CaUfornia Academy of Sciences, 1896-98, and again in 1900, and U.S. commissioner in charge of fur seal investigations, in the interests of which he went on several expeditions to Alaska. He was elected a fellow in the American Academy for the Advancement of Science in 1883, and a member of various scientificsocieties in Europe and America. He was one of the ninety-seven judges who served as a board of electors in October, 1900, in determining the names entitled to a place in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, New York university. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Butler university in 1877, and that of LL.D. from Cornell university in 1886. He contributed numerous papers on ichthyology in the proceed- ings of various societies and government bureaus ; was associate editor of " Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia" in charge of the department of zoology, comparative anatomy and animal phy- siology, 1892-94; contributed to the "Standard Natural History " and to periodicals, and is the author of : Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States (1876); Synojisis of the Fishes of North America (with Dr. Charles H. Gilbert, 1882); Science Sketches (1887); TJie Food- Fishes of Indiana (with Dr. Barton W. Ever- mann, 1888); Matka and Kotik (1897); Care and Culture of Men (1897); The Innumerable Company (1897 ) ; Catalogue of the Fishes of North and Mid- dle America (with Dr. B. W. Evermann, 4 vols., 1896-99); Report of the United States Fur Seal Commission (4 vols., 1898) ; Footnotes to Evolution (1898); Imperial Democracy (1899); California and the Calif ornians (1899); Book of Knight and Barbara (1899).

JORDAN, James Henry, jurist, was born at Woodstock, Va., Dec. 21, 1842 ; son of Charles B. and Elizabeth Rhoads (Burke) Jordan, and grand- son of David Jordan and of Thomas Burke. His paternal grandfather came to America from Ger- many and settled in Virginia about 1784 ; and his maternal grandfather was related to Edmund Burke, the orator. He removed to Indiana in 1853 and lived on a farm until 1861, when he en- listed in the 45th Indiana volunteers and served through the war, participating in all the impor- tant battles of the Army of the Potomac. He was graduated from the State University of In- diana in 1868, and from the law department of the same in 1871. He began to practice law in

1869 before his graduation ; was made pi'osecut- ing attorney, 1872 ; judge of the circuit court, 1882 ; a member of the Republican state central committee, 1880, chairman of the committee, 1882, and became judge of the supreme court of Indiana in 1895. He was a trustee of the State University of Indiana. 1801-95.

JORDAN, John Woolf, antiquary, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Sei^t. 14, 1840 ; son of Francis and Emily (Woolf) Jordan ; grandson of John and Elizabeth (Henry) Jordan ; great-grandson of William Henry, presidential elector for Wash- ington in 1793 ; and greats-grandson of William Henry, Sr. (1729-1786). He was graduated from Nazareth Hall, Pa., in 1856, and engaged in liter- ary work. He became editor of Tlie Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography in 1887 ; assistant librarian of the Historical Society of Pennsj'lvania in 1885, and in 1895 first president and vice-president of the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania. He contributed to historical pub- lications and to the Moravian, and is the author of : Friedensthal and its Stockaded Mill, 1749-1767 (1877); Narrative of John Hechenwelder' s Jour- ney to the Wabash in 1792 (1877) ; Bishop Span- genburg's Notes of Travel to Onondaga in 1745 (1877) ; A Bed Rose from the Olden Time, 1752- 1772 (1883) ; Something About Trombones (1884) ; Notes of Travel of John Heckemoelder to Ohio, 1797 (1886) ; Occupation of New York by the Brit- ish, 1775-1782 (1887) ; Bethlehem and Lititz during the Revolution (1888) ; The Military Hospntals at Bethlehem and Lititz during the Revolution (1896) ; Franklin as a Genealogist (1899); and he edited Essay of an Onondaga Grammar, by David Zusberger (1888) ; Continental Hosjntal Returns, 177S-17S0 (1899),

JORDAN, Thomas, soldier, was born in Luray, Va., Sept. 30, 1819. He was graduated from the U.S. Military academy in 1840, entering the army as 2d lieutenant of the 3d infantry. He served in the Seminole war, and in the war with Mexico, distinguishing himself at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma. He was promoted 1st lieutenant, June 18, 1846, and captain and quartermaster on General Taylor's staff, March 3, 1847. After the war he served in Florida and the Northwest ; was stationed at Fort Miller, Cal., 1850-56 ; at Fort Dallas, Ore., 1856-60, and while on the Pacific coast he introduced navigation on the Columbia river above the Dallas, and the first successful system of irrigation of arid plains. He resigned his commission in the U.S. army, and in May, 1861, entered the Confederate States army with the rank of lieutenant-colonel and was appointed adjutant-general of the Confederate forces at Man- assas Juncticm. He accompanied General Beaure- gard to Tennessee as chief of staff, where he took part in the battle of Shiloli, April 6, 1862, and was