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Jordan, John – Jouett, Matthew Harris

Jordan, John

antiquarian, was born May 8, 1808, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is one of the oldest surviving members of the Historical society of Pennsylvania.

Jordan, John Woolf

antiquarian, author, was born Sept. 14, 1840, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a Philadelphia antiquarian, editor of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History; and the author of Friedensthal and its Stockaded Mill; A Red Rose from the Olden Time; Something about Trombones; and Occupation of New York by the British.

Jordan, M. S

clergyman, was born Jan. 14, 1855, in Alabama. He received his education in Montgomery, Ala.; and is now a successful clergyman at Columbus, Texas. He has filled important offices in various secret orders, and has taken an active part in religious and educational affairs.

Jordan, Richard Francis

lawyer, was born March 19, 1856, in Glens Falls, N. Y. In 1879 he was admitted to the bar; became city attorney and solicitor of Boone, Iowa, which position he filled for nine years; was president of the school board for three years; and a member of the public library board for ten years. His practice covers several counties; and he has taken an active part in all the important litigated cases in his part of the state.

Jordan, Thomas

soldier, journalist, author, was born Sept. 30, 1819, in Luray Valley, Va. He was a confederate officer; and the editor of The Mining Record. He is the author of The South, its Products, Commerce, and Resources; and Campaigns of Lieutenant-General Forrest.

Jordan, Francis

lawyer, state legislator, was born Feb. 5, 1820, in Belford county, Pa. In 1855 he was a member of the Pennsylvania state senate. He has been president and general counsel of the Pennsylvania Telephone company since its organization in 1882.

Jorgenson, Joseph

surgeon, state legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 11, 1844, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was an assistant surgeon in the United States army from 1865 to 1868. He settled in Virginia; and was elected a representative in the state legislature in 1871. He was elected a representative from Virginia to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a republican.

Joseph, Antonio

merchant, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 25, 1846, in Taos, N. M. He was county judge of Taos county, N. M., for six years; and was a representative in the territorial legislature for six years. He was a senator in the territorial legislature when elected a delegate from New Mexico to the fortyninth congress; and was re-elected to the fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second and fifty-third congresses as a democrat.

Joslin, Theodore Merrills

educator, lawyer, was born Dec. 21, 1869, in Woodstock, Mich. He finished his education at the Michigan State Normal school; for several years was engaged in educational work; and then was in the railway mail service. He was subsequently admitted to the bar, and has attained success as an able lawyer of Adrian, Mich.

Josselyn, Warren B

lawyer, was born Aug. 9, 1863, in San Francisco, Cal.

He attended the university of California; was admitted to the bar; and has attained success in the profession of law in his native state at Santa Cruz, where he takes an active part in the public affairs of his county and state. in of in

Jouett, Matthew Harris

soldier, artist, was born April 22, 1788, in Mercer county, Ky. He enlisted the war of 1812 as lieutenant the twenty-eighth infantry, serving the northwest, and was appointed captain. He painted more than three hundred portraits, among which one of Lafayette was ordered by the legislature of the lower house of congress of Kentucky.