Biographical Sketch of Jordan Miner, Dent County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Jordan Miner was born in Reynolds County, Mo., in 1829, and is the next
to the youngest of a family of eight children, five of whom are living.
He made the paternal roof his home until twenty-six years of age, and
received what education he has in the old subscription schools.  About
1855 he went to California, and after working in the gold mines of that
state for about four years, returned to Dent County, Mo., and purchased
a farm of 218 acres on which he is now residing.  He has ninety acres
under cultivation, and is considered one of the enterprising and
successful farmers of the county.  January 16, 1859, he was married to
Miss Margaret E. Parker, who was born in Franklin County, Mo., in 1840,
and is a daughter of David A. and Sarah Parker, who were of Irish and
Dutch descent, respectively.  Mr. and Mrs. Miner became the parents of
eight children, only four of whom are now living.  H. H. Miner, their 
oldest child, remained with them until twenty-two years of age.  During
that time he advanced his education as far as it was possible in the
common schools.  After two years of wild adventure in the West, he re-
turned, and began his studies in the Home College at Salem, which he
had to leave several times to teach school to secure means to defray 
his expenses.  He began the study of the legal profession, was admitted
to the bar April 2, 1888, and ran for circuit attorney in the same 
year, being defeated by a small majority.  His office is with the Salem
Monitor.  Mr. Jordan Miner is a member of the County Wheel, and he and 
wife are members of the United Christian Church.  His parents, Laban E.
and Elizabeth (Moran) Miner, were born in Kentucky, about 1791, and 
died in Reynolds County, Mo., in 1863 and 1866, respectively.  They 
were reared and married in their native state, and in 1818 immigrated
to Missouri, being among the pioneer citizens of Reynolds County.  The
father was of English and the mother of Irish descent.

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