NOBLE COUNTY OHIO - BIO: Jacob Jordan (1887) *********************************************************************** OHGENWEB NOTICE: All distribution rights to this electronic data are reserved by the submitter. Reproduction or re-presentation of copyrighted material will require the permission of the copyright owner. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ *********************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Submitter: Tina Hursh Email: ribbit@clubnet.isl.net Date: 14 July 2002 *********************************************************************** From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Deb Murray. --------------- Jacob Jordan and his sons, Adam and Peter, were among the earliest settlers near the township line in the vicinity of Hiramsburg. Henry Hamilton, a brother-in-law of Jacob Jordan, was an early settler in the same neighborhood. While this was still a part of Guernsey County, elections were held at the house of the Jordans. Jacob Jordan, a Revolutionary soldier, came to this township in 1810 and left it in 1818. His son Peter was born in Greene County, Pa., in 1797, came to this county when young, and died in Brookfield Township in 1868. He married Rachel Albin, whose father, James Albin, was a Revolutionary soldier. Mrs. Jordan was born in Virginia in 1791. She died in 1881. Peter Jordan came to the farm on which John Jordan now lives in 1814. The whole country was then very wild, and bears, wolves, and panthers inhabited it.. Mrs. Jordan brought from Guernsey county a willow sprout which she used as a riding whip, and on reaching her home stuck in in the ground. It grew into a tree and is now about seventy years old, and fifteen feet in circumference. John Jordan was born in Brookfield Township December 23, 1823. In 1845 he married Nancy Downey, a native of Buffalo Township. They have five sons and four daughters. Of their sons P.D. Jordan is a merchant, postmaster, notary and a railroad agent; S.S. Jordan is a farmer and carp History of Noble County, Ohio Published by L.H. Watkins & Co. of Chicago 1887 Brookfield