Biographical Sketch of J. W. Jordan, Johnson County, Missouri, Warrensburg >From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell, Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918. ********************************************************************** J. W. Jordan, the widely known and prosperous dealer in poultry, butter and eggs at Warrensburg, Missouri, was born in Howard county, Missouri. He is a son of James D. Jordan, who came with his father, James Jordan, Sr., to Missouri in 1819 and settled in Howard county, where several years later both father and son died. Until he was 30 years of age, J. W. Jordan engaged in farming. At that time he entered the livery busi- ness and also speculated in horses. For the past 11 years, Mr. Jordan has been located in Warrensburg, where he buys and sells poultry, butter and eggs. His estimate on the value of this produce sold in Johnson county is more than a million dollars annually, that means prior to the present world war. Mr. Jordan, himself, has bought at this one stand more than six thousand dollars worth of produce. He has in one year dressed for the market at least seven carloads of turkeys, aggregating one hundred thirty thousand pounds. Poultry products have been reduced during the past few years, due to the light crops. The prices of the past year have gone as high as thirty-seven cents for eggs, twenty-one cents for hens, and twenty-four cents for turkeys. Mr. Jordan ships carload lots to the New York and Chicago markets. He believes that Chicago is the greatest market in the world. At Warsaw, Missouri, J. W. Jordan entered the poultry business and in 1906, three months after entering this business, he came to Warrensburg and opened his place of trade on Pine street, where he remained six years, when he moved to his present location of the west side of the public square. When his place of business was located on Pine street, Mr. Jordan had forty men employed one week picking turkeys and at the end of the week one hundred eighteen coops containing in all one thousand turkeys were left untouched. At that time, he shipped a carload of turkeys every other day and he has had as much as seventeen and eighteen thousand dollars worth of turkeys at one time on the road to market. In 1900, J. W. Jordan and Margaret L. Beeson, of Pilot Grove, Missouri, were married. To them were born two children: J. W., Jr., and Martha Louise. The mother died March 28, 1908. Mr. Jordan remarried, his second wife being Myrtle Hyatt, daughter of Theodore Hyatt, the present clerk of Johnson county. To J. W. and Myrtle (Hyatt) Jordan has been born one child, a daughter, Ina Jaquelin. ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: <> Penny Harrell ====================================================================