Jordan, Mrs. Cornelia Jane – Joy, Edmund L
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.
Jordan, David Starr
educator, naturalist, college president, author, was born Jan. 19, 1851, in Gainesville, N. Y.
In 1872 he graduated from Cornell university; was president of the university of Indiana during 1884-91; and since 1891 has been president of the Leland Stanford Junior university. In 1896-97 he was commissioner in charge of the fur seal investigations. Since 1896 he has also been president of the California Academy of Sciences. He is a noted naturalist; and has published numerous scientific papers and monographs. He is the author of A Manual of the Vertebrate Animals of the Northern United States; Scientific Sketches; Contributions to American Ichthyology; and The Factors in Organic Evolution.
JORDAN, MRS. DULCIE [MASON], journalist, poet, was born in 1835 in New York. She is a journalist and poet of Richmond, Ind., who has published Rosemary Leaves, a volume of poems.
Jordan, Isaac M
lawyer, congressman, was born May 5, 1835, in Union county, Pa. He was nominated by acclamation, and elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-eighth congress as a democrat.
Jordan, James H
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 21, 1842, in Woodstock, Va. He served as a soldier in the union army during the civil war; has been state's attorney; and is now a judge of the supreme court of Indiana.
Jordan, James Joseph
journalist, was born Oct. 5, 1856, in Archbald, Pa.
He was identified with educational work early in life; and in 1878 was elected a member of the Archbald school board. In 1882 he founded the Archbald Truth; and subsequently moved to Scranton, Pa., where a wider field was to be obtained; and continued the publication under the name of The Scranton Truth, an independent daily newspaper, which has achieved remarkable success in winning a national reputation, and conceded to be the leading paper in the Keystone state.
Mr. Jordan has been eminently successful in journalism; and is one of the foremost men of Pennsylvania.
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.
Joslin, Thomas Jefferson
clergyman, was born April 29, 1829, in Cohocton, N. Y. In 1844 he moved with his parents to Michigan.
He has been a member of the Detroit annual conference of the methodist episcopal church for half a century; has filled important pastorates; served three full terms as presiding elder; oneterm as a delegate to the general conference at Philadelphia; and one term as regent of the university of Michigan. He is still doing effective work, and has gained special prominence throughout Michigan by his Addresses, Orations, and Dedications, for which occasions he is in constant demand.
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.
Jouin, Louis
educator, author, was born June 14, 1818, in Prussia. He is a Jesuit educator of note, professor at St.
John's college, Fordham; and the author of Elementa Philosophiæ Moralis; Compendium Logicæ et Metaphysicæ; and Evidences of Religion.
Joy, Charles Arad
journalist, scholar, chemist, was born Oct. 8, 1823, in Ludlowville, N. Y. He was for two years editor of the Scientific American; and also editor of all chemical articles in Appleton's New American Cyclopedia. He died May 29, 1891, in Stockbridge, Mass.
Joy, Charles Frederick
congressman, was born Dec. 11, 1849, in Morgan county, Ill. He graduated with the degree of bachelor of arts June 25, 1874; engaged in the practice of law in St.
Louis in September, 1876, and since that time has devoted himself exclusively to his profession. He was elected to the fifty-third congress as a republican, but was unseated on contest in favor of John J. O'Neill, his democratic opponent, April 3, 1894. He was elected to the fiftyfourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Joy, Edmund L
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, was born Oct. 1, 1835, in Albany, N. Y. After graduating from the university of Rochester, he studied law and was admitted to the bar of New York in 1857. The same year he moved to Ottumwa, Iowa; and in 1860 was appointed city attorney. During the civil war he served as captain in the thirty-sixth Iowa infantry; and in 1864 was appointed by President Lincoln major and judge advocate of the United States. volunteers, and assigned to the seventh army corps. After the war he settled in Newark, N. J., and engaged in business.
In 1871 he was elected to the New Jersey legislature, and was re-elected the following year. He was president of the Newark board of trade in 1875-76; and president of the Newark board of education in 1885-87. In 1880 he was a delegate to the republican national convention; and in 1884 was appointed by President Arthur a government director of the Union Pacific Railroad company. He died Feb. 14, 1892.
His son, Edmund S. Joy, is a noted lawyer of Newark, N. J.