Wilson-Haywood County TN Archives Biographies.....Stokes, Jordan (Jr.) 1817 - 1886
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Author: Will T. Hale

   JORDAN STOKES, JR. In a profession that was significantly honored through the

character and achievement of his distinguished father, Jordan Stokes has won for

himself secure prestige and is recognized as one of the representative members

of the bar of his native state. He is engaged in the practice of his profession

in the city of Nashville, where he has associated with him his son James W.

Stokes, under the title of Stokes & Stokes.



   Mr. Stokes was born at Lebanon, the judicial center of Wilson county,

Tennessee, on the 24th of November, 1854, and is a son of Hon. Jordan and Martha

J. (Frazer) Stokes, concerning whom more specific data is given in the memoir

dedicated to the father on other pages of this work, so that further review of

the family history is not demanded in the present connection. After due

preliminary discipline Mr. Stokes was matriculated in Cumberland University, in

his native city, and in this institution he continued his studies along academic

lines for three years. He then spent three years at Princeton. In preparation

for the work of his chosen profession he entered the law department of

Cumberland University, at Lebanon, and in the same he was graduated as a member

of the class of 1876 and with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was forthwith

admitted to the bar of his native state and became associated with his father in

the practice of his profession at Lebanon, this partnership alliance having been

formed on the 11th of October, 1877, and having continued until within a short

time prior to the death of his honored father, in November, 1886. In October.

1885, Mr. Stokes removed to the city of Nashville, and here he was associated

for eight years with his brother as senior member of the well known and

essentially representative law firm of Stokes & Stokes. The firm gives almost

exclusive attention to chancery practice and its business and clientage are of

important order, giving to the members of the firm precedence as one of the

foremost of the kind in Nashville.



   Though according a stanch allegiance to the cause of the Democratic party,

Mr. Stokes has had naught of predilection for the turbulence of the stream of

practical politics and has considered his profession worthy of his undivided

allegiance and attention. He has been urged to accept nomination for judicial

office but has invariably refused such overtures. As a citizen he is

broad-minded, liberal and progressive and he takes deep interest in all that

touches the social and material welfare of his home city and native state. He is

a man of fine intellectual and professional attainments, a student of the best

in. literature and devoted to his home, the relations and associations of which

are of ideal order. He was for several years a member of the board of education

of Nashville and his service in this capacity was marked by characteristic vigor

and well directed zeal. He was president of the board for some time and his

administration met the unqualified approval of his coadjutors.



   Mr. Stokes and his wife are most zealous and valued members of the Methodist

Episcopal church, South, in their home city, and he has been specially active

and liberal in promoting the best interests of the same, along both spiritual

and temporal lines. It may be noted that he was sole counsel for Rev. David C.

Kelly, D. D., on the occasion of the latter's trial before the general

conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, and of his service in this

connection it has been consistently stated that "He made an able defense and

showed profound thought on and knowledge of ecclesiastical matters."



   On the 11th of October, 1877, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Stokes to

Miss Mary Whitworth, daughter of the late Hon. James Whitworth, a representative

citizen of Nashville, and the four children of this union are: Martha Lendsey,

Anna Parent, Jordan II, and James.



Additional Comments:
From:



A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in

commerce, industry and modern activities

by Will T. Hale

Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co.,  1913



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