Jordan, Charles E
lawyer, was born Sept. 28, 1865, in Palmyra, N. Y. He received his education at the Palmyra Union school, and the Union university.
In 1887 he was admitted to the bar of the state of New York; and has since been actively engaged in the practice of law.
He is one of the foremost lawyers of Alabama, and has a large practice at Florence. JORDAN, MRS. CORNELIA JANE [MATTHEWS], author, poet, was born Jan. 11, 1830, in Lynchburg, Va. She is a Virginia poet whose volume, Corinth, and Other Poems of the War, was publicly burnt on its appearance in 1865, by order of Gen. Terry, as an objectionable and incendiary publication. Her other works are, Flowers of Hope and Memory; Christmas Poem for Children; Richmond, her Glory and her Graves; and Useful Maxims for a Noble Life.