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(VII) Samuel, son of William and Ann (Leach) Jordan, was born at Raymond, Maine, July 6, 1805, and died on his home farm in Deering, Maine, December 14, 1880. After the death of his father, when Samuel was about fifteen years old, he went to West- brook, now the Deering district of Portland, and for the next two years was in the employ of Elisha North, a merchant of that town. After that he was a student at Hebron Acad- emy, where he pursued a thorough course of study with the view of entering the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, with the ultimate intention of entering the army; but in deference to the wishes of his mother he abandoned that idea and turned his attention to mercantile pursuits. After leaving the academy he went to Woodford's Corners and became agent for the sale of combs manufactured by E. D. Woodford. His agency extended throughout the New England states, the Canadian provinces and as far south as Baltimore, Maryland. In 1832 he acquired a partnership interest in the business con- ducted by his employer, Mr. Woodford, and the style of the firm became Woodford & Jor- dan. This relation was maintained for the
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next six years and during that period the firm's business was increased by the addition of a tin manufacturing department ; and when the partnership was dissolved Mr. Jordan con tinued the manufacture of tinware in company with Gerry Cook, the firm name being Cook & Jordan. This business was continued with gratifying success for about three years, when the junior partner withdrew and purchased the farm formerly owned by Captain Thomas Seal, his father-in-law, situated in the town of Deer- ing, and afterward devoted his attention chiefly to farming pursuits, although he was variously interested in other business enterprises and somewhat prominently identified with the po- litical history of the county. For six years he was president of the Westbrook Bank, also a director of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad Company, now a part of the Grand Trunk system. From 1857 to 1861 he was postmaster of Portland, during the Buchanan administration, for Mr. Jordan was a staunch Democrat and a warm admirer of James Bu- chanan. In 1848 and 1849 he was a member of the lower house of the state legislature. "Mr. Jordan was a man of more than ordinary character and force and had he been educated with a view to a public career would have been a leader among men anywhere. In mind and body he was sturdy and strong, but al- ways frank and self-possessed. Tenacious of his own views and convictions, he always was manly and large-hearted in his intercourse with others-belonging to that type of men whose natures are so virile that their very faults are never despicable. His opinions were always sincerely sought in all matters of public con- cern and were never for a moment misunder- stood or lightly treated. He believed in the hearty and prompt contribution of individual thought to the current of public discussion, and so filled the full measure of a citizen's duty, and died in the fulness of years, beloved of family and friends; and on every hand will be remembered as a brave, able and honest man, and a splendid type of the old New England stock which breathed into all our institutions the breath of its own courage and hopefulness." ( Portland Daily News, Dec. 15, 1880.) On November 7, 1832, Samuel Jor- dan married Eunice Quinby Seal, born West- brook, February 4, 1808, died May 23, 1863, daughter of Captain Thomas Seal, and a lineal descendant of Sir William Pepperell through the Frost family. Of this marriage seven chil- dren were born : I. Emily F., July 1, 1837. 2. Horace M., December 10, 1839. 3. Jane Eliza- beth, July 17, 1841, married, 1869, Captain
James W. Thompson, an officer of a Massa- chusetts regiment during the war of 1861-65, and afterward a planter in the Hawaiian islands. Mrs. Thompson died at Redlands, California, October 27, 1908. 4. Arthur W., born January 25, 1843, a grain broker of Bos- ton ; married, in 1875, Helen A. Warren, of Deering, Maine, and had Henry Irving Jor- dan, civil engineer of Portland. 5. Henry 1., born June 31, 1845, died 1870, at Stillwater, Minnesota ; graduated from Bowdoin College, 1863; College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1867; went to St. Paul, Minnesota, and thence to Stillwater, where he died; never married. 6. Edward C., born March 17, 1847, graduate of Union College, Schenectady, New York; was engineer in charge of Yellowstone expedition, and Northern Pacific railway ; mar- ried, in 1873, Elizabeth Goddard Thomas, who died in 1874; married (second) Marcia Brad- bury, an authoress of note, daughter of the late Hon. Bion Bradbury. 7. Isabella Frost, born August 14, 1849, married, June 20, 1877, Fred W. Sewall, born August 10, 1850; lives at Wiscasset, Maine, and is a bank cashier ; has one son, Samuel Jordan Sewall, superintend- ent of the Wiscasset & Waterville railroad.
(VIII) Horace Malcolm, son of Samuel and Eunice Quinby (Seal) Jordan, was born in Deering, now Portland, Maine, December 10, 1839, and acquired his earlier literary educa- tion in private schools, Yarmouth Academy and Westbrook Seminary, in which he was fitted for college. In 1854 he entered Bow- doin College, for the classical course, and was graduated with the degree of A. B. After leaving college he traveled somewhat exten- sively for his health, and later took up the study of law with Mr. Justice Clifford, at Portland. In 1861 he was admitted to prac- tice in the courts of this state and became a member of the Cumberland bar. In 1863 he went to New Orleans and was appointed aide- de-camp on the staff of General George F. Shepley, then military governor of Louisiana. He remained in the south at the close of the civil war, chiefly at New Orleans, where he was admitted to the bar and for a short time practiced law in association with the law firm of Rouse & Grant. While there he drifted into newspaper work, and for some time pre- vious to 1870 and was associate editor of the New Orleans Republican. Returning to Maine in 1870, Mr. Jordan for the next two years was editor of the Mainc Standard, at Augusta, and in 1872 became editor of the Portland Sunday Star. In 1873 he went into a new field and for the next five years filled responsi-
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ble positions on the editorial staffs of the Newe York Times and the Brooklyn Eagle. Return- ing to Boston in 1878, he took editorial charge of the afternoon editions of the Boston Globe. Later on he became connected with the Bos- ton Traveller and was its associate editor from 1880 to 1887. While living in Boston Mr. Jordan was for two years secretary of the Massachusetts rapid transit commission, but otherwise devoted his attention chiefly to newspaper work until he returned to New York City and again became assistant editor of the New York Times. In 1897 he received the appointment of assistant librarian in the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., which position he still retains. He holds member- ship in the University and National Press clubs of Washington, is quite inclined to be independent in politics and Unitarian in relig- ious preference. In 1891 he married Virginia, daughter of George C. Frisbie, Esq., of Or- well, Pennsylvania. She died December 31, 1906, leaving no children.
(For preceding generations see Robert Jordan I.) (III) Captain Samuel, second JORDAN son of Dominicus and Hannah (Tristram) Jordan, was born at Spurwink in 1684. At the age of eighteen years he was carried a captive to Canada, and after living six years with the Indians spent one year with the French at "Three Rivers." With two other prisoners he managed to es- cape, assisted by an Indian woman named Mary, and she guided them through the woods to Casco Bay. Settling at Winter Harbor, he engaged in trade, carrying on for many years the only store in that place, and as he had obtained a good knowledge of the Indian language while in captivity, he was able to render valuable services to the government as an interpreter. Subsequently to 1717 he acted as the authorized agent for the government in its transactions with the Indians, and he was also captain of the local militia company. He was a man of unusual energy and perse- verance, was very prominent in civic and re- ligious affairs, and a member of the Congre- gational church. In 1727 he erected a sub- stantial residence near Biddeford pool, which was still in a good state of preservation in 1872. Captain Jordan died December 20, 1742. He was married at York in 1718 to Olive Plaisted, daughter of James and Mary (Rishworth) Plaisted, of Brunswick, Maine. In 1744 she married for her second husband Rev. James Smith. Her death occurred in 1763. The children of her first union were:
Olive (who became the wife of Rev. Ivory Hovey) ; Sarah ( who became the wife of Rev. Samuel Hill) ; Hannah ( who became the wife of Rev. Moses Morrill) ; Samuel (who mar- ried Mercy Bourn) ; Tristram, who will be again referred to; and Mary ( who became the wife of Philip Goldthwaite, of Boston).
(IV) Colonel · Tristram, youngest son of Captain Samuel and Olive ( Plaisted) Jordan, was born at Winter Harbor, May 13, 1731. He became one of the first merchants on the east side of the Saco river, at the falls, and resided in what was known as the Pepperell House. At the age of twenty-three, in 1754, he was chosen a selectman and at about the same time was commissioned a captain in the militia. In 1787 he was chosen a senator from York county to the Massachusetts general court. At the close of the revolutionary war he removed from the falls to his estate at Deep Brook, where he died November 1, 1821, aged ninety years. In addition to the offices mentioned, he served as a magistrate for many years, and in 1776 was commissioned a colonel by the council of Massachusetts. In 1749 he married (first) in Berwick, Hannah, daughter of Ichabod Goodwin, born July 24, 1730, died July 10, 1775. The Christian name of his second wife was Dorcas; their marriage occurred at Falmouth in 1778 and she died December 19, 1781. On May 21, 1784, he married (third) Hannah Frost, of Berwick, who died September 26, 1789. His twelve children were: I. Elizabeth, born March 2, 1751, married William Vaughn, of Ports- mouth ; died April 5, 1811. 2. Hannah, born December 3, 1753, died January 7, 1757. 3. Sarah, born January 19, 1756, married Colo- nel Nathaniel Scammon, son of Captain Hum- phrey Scammon, of Saco, and had eleven children. 4. Hannah, born April 5, 1758, mar- ried, first, Captain Solomon Coit, of Saco; married, second, Captain James Perkins, of Kennebunkport ; died 1839. 5. Olive, born June 24, 1760, married Captain Seth Storer ; died August 4, 1842. 6. Tristram, born Au- gust 1, 1768, married Sarah Scammon. 7. Ichabod, born September 24, 1770, married Mary Coffin ; died May 20, 1865, aged ninety- five. 8. Mary, born August 24, 1772, married Daniel Granger, who served in the revolution- ary war; died at Eastport in 1847. 9. Me- hitable, born July 2, 1775, died October 23, 1779. 10. Dorcas, born in March, 1785, mar- ried Edward Tucker, of Salem, Massachu- setts ; died March 18, 1874. II. Samuel, born July 5, 1786, died in Alexandria, Virginia. 12. Rishworth, see next paragraph.
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( V.) Rishworth, youngest son of Colonel Tristram and Hannah ( Frost) Jordan, born October 17, 1788, died at Saco in 1868. 111 1813 he married Mary Sawyer, born at Saco, November 14, 1790, daughter of William Saw- yer. She died July 3, 1870. Their children were: I. Dorcas Olive, born September 29. 1813, became the wife of Gilbert Sawyer, of Saco, who was lost at sea November 14, 1837. 2. Sally, born December 13, 1814, died Febru- ary 6, 1823. 3. Mary, born July 28, 1817, became the wife of James Fogg, of Saco. 4. Rishworth, who is referred to in the succeed- ing paragraph. 5. Henry, born December 21, 1820, married Mary A. Warren, daughter of William Warren, of Gorham. 6. William, born January 2, 1823, married Phebe C. Lord, daughter of James Lord, of Saco, and went to Iowa. 7. Sarah Jane, born January 27, 1827, married Captain Robert Cleaves, of Sáco ; died March 20, 1857. 8. Charles, born October 17, 1828, married Mary C. Cole, daughter of Ben- jamin F. Cole, of Saco, and became a medical practitioner in Wakefield, Massachusetts.
(VI) Rishworth (2). eldest son of Rish- worth (I) and Mary (Sawyer) Jordan, was born in Saco, January 18, 1819. As a young man he was desirous of following the sea, but changing his mind he entered, as a clerk, the grocery store of Tristram Jordan, of Saco. He subsequently purchased the busi- ness, which he carried on successfully for over thirty years. After his retirement from mercantile business he turned his attention to real estate, in which he was associated with Luther Bryant, of Biddeford, and was also a prominent figure in the financial affairs of Saco, being president of the Saco National Bank. At one time he was president of the Biddeford National Bank, which through his timely aid was prevented from suspending business. In politics he was a Democrat, and resigned the office of mayor after being elected. Rishworth Jordan died March 20, 1903. He was married, April 3, 1851, to Mary Eliza- beth Hill, daughter of Joseph Hill, of Saco. She became the mother of five children: I. Herbert, born November 6, 1851, died Au- gust 29, 1853. 2. Helen A., born December 21, 1853, married, March 30, 1880, George Leonard Mason, who will be again referred to. 3. Herbert R., who will be again referred to. 4. Mary E., born April 30, 1864, died August 29, 1865. 5. Alfred, born January 23, 1867, died January 24, 1868.
(VII) Herbert Rishworth, second son and third child of Rishworth (2) and Mary Elizabeth (Hill) Jordan, was born in Saco.
June 28, 1857. He was educated in the pub- lic schools, and began his business career in the grocery trade at Saco. He was after- wards, for a number of years, engaged in the clothing business in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Returning to Saco, he be- came associated with his father in the real estate business, and since the latter's death has acted in the capacity of manager of the Jordan estate. He succeeded his father as president of the Saco National Bank and is still the official head of that institution. In politics he is a Republican.
On October 20, 1879, Mr. Jordan married (first) Caroline Hooper, daughter of Gibson Hooper, of Saco. They have two children : Rishworth Pierpont, born April 13, 1887, and Elizabeth Hill, born January 2, 1890. He married (second) Annie E. Leavitt, February II, 1900, daughter of Francis W. and Sarah O. Leavitt.
George Leonard Mason, born November 26, 1852, in Saco, Maine, died March 12, 1895, in New York City, was a great-grandson of Joseph and Hannah (Miller) Mason, who were married July 16, 1778. Joseph Mason, grandfather of George L. Mason, born Jan- uary II, 1782, died 1858, married Sally Scott, born February 13, 1779; died March 13, 1848, daughter of Sylvanius and Sarah (Andrews) Scott, married October 1, 1757; Sylvanius Scott was born 1732, died August 5, 1784; his wife, Sarah (Andrews) Scott, born 1739, died October 10, 1781. Dr. Jeremiah Mason, father of George L. Mason, born May II, 1814, died September 16, 1892. He was a prominent dentist and practiced his profession many years at Saco, Maine. He was vice- president of Saco Savings Bank for several years. He married, November 17, 1841, Eliza Barron Sawyer, born January 26, 1819, died March 2, 1901, a woman of high attainments, who was active in church and benevolent work. . She was a daughter of William, born June 27, 1779, died September 28, 1853, and Betsey (Knight) Sawyer, born 1775, died De- cember 18, 1863; they were married August 10, 1806. William Sawyer was a son of Ja- bez, born 1744, died April 17, 1816, and Mary (Pennell) Sawyer, born 1744, died March 14, 1814; they were married March 8, 1765. Bet- sey (Knight) Sawyer was a daughter of Sam- uel, born January 22, 1756, and Hannah (Whitten) Knight. George Leonard Mason attended the public schools of Saco and Bid- deford, graduated from Biddeford high school, class of 1870, and from Harvard Dental School, class of 1874. He resided and prac-
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ticed dentistry in Brooklyn, New York, 1874- 1880, and resided and practiced dentistry in the city of New York, 1880-1895. His wife, Helen A. (Jordan) Mason, was educated at the Saco high school, Berwick Academy and Abbott Academy, of Andover. She is a bril- liant woman, of high attainments, and acuve in church and charitable work.
(For preceding generations see Robert Jordan I.)
(III) Nathaniel, youngest son
JORDAN of Dominicus and Hannah ( Tristram) Jordan, was born 1696, at Cape Elizabeth, Maine, died 1783., But little can be definitely learned of his ca- reer by his descendants. In 1703, with his mother and the remainder of the children of the household, he was made prisoner by the Indians, but later redeemed from captivity, ow- ing to the treaty of 1713. They returned and improved their share of the old homestead estate. Married (first) Dorothy in 1717. Married (second) in 1741, Mary Cut- levier, who survived him, and attained the age of ninety-one years, as indicated by the slate tombstone in the cemetery at Cape Eliza- beth. The children of Nathaniel Jordan were
as follows : Ebenezer, Sarah, Nathaniel, Joshua, Benjamin, Ebenezer and Solomon.
(IV) Nathaniel (2), eldest son of Nathan- iel (I) Jordan, by his wife Dorothy, was born 1733 or thereabouts. He married, in 1756, Susannah Hill, by whom the following children were born at Scarborough, Maine: Abner, Ephraim, Nathaniel, Benjamin, Eliza Sarah, John H., Mary, Martha, Abigail, Han- nah, Sally. The youngest child was born No- vember 10, 1774.
(V) Abner, eldest child of Nathaniel (2) and Susannah (Hill) Jordan, was born 1760, at Cape Elizabeth, Maine, died at Lisbon, Maine, September 26, 1819. He served in the revolutionary army, though young at the time of that struggle for independence. In the spring of 1790, with his wife and children, he moved from Cape Elizabeth to what is now known as Webster, Maine. There he lodged in a log cabin, built two years prior by his brother. He married, May 21, 1786, Hannah Wentworth, born 1768, died August 31, 1849, at Lisbon, Maine. Their children were : Nathan B., John Wentworth, Hannah, Abner, Nathaniel, Timothy, Sarah Bartlett, Benning Wentworth and Lydia. The youngest child was born in 1813.
(VI) Nathaniel (3), fifth child of Abner and Hannah (Wentworth) Jordan, was born January 31, 1799, on the old plantation home-
stead. He died September II, 1856. In 1823, at Danville, he married Anna, daughter of Ebenezer Jordan (a relative far removed), by whom was born the following children : Sarah, Hannah, Silas Curtis, Mary P., Ebenezer, Ly- dia H., Wentworth, Abner, Horatio Garcelon and Abbie C.
(VII) Wentworth, son of Nathaniel (3) and Anna (Jordan) Jordan, was born Novem- ber 17, 1837, at Lisbon, Maine, and was edu- cated at the common schools of Webster. At the age of twenty years he commenced to learn the blacksmith's trade, which he con- tinued to follow until he mastered it at Port- land. In 1861 he went to California, where he worked at mining and the forge and anvil for four years. He then returned to Lisbon and continued to work at his trade until 1874, when he opened the "Lisbon House," a hotel which for thirty-three years was well and most favorably known for its right good cheer and the homelike hospitality extended. He mar- ried Elizabeth Knights, by whom was born two children, Joseph, who died aged six- teen years, born at Iowa Hill, California, Feb- ruary 17, 1864; Forrest Elmer, born October 17, 1866, at Lisbon, Maine.
(VIII) Forrest Elmer, youngest child of Wentworth and Elizabeth (Knights) Jordan, born at Lisbon, Maine, October 17, 1866, ob- tained his education at the schools of New Sharon and later attended the high school of Lisbon. After leaving school he worked at painting and paperhanging for a time, but later took up carpentering and followed that for three years, after which he entered the em- ploy of E. H. Lunt as a clerk in a general merchandise store, where he remained about one year. He then went to Boston, Massa- chusetts, and secured a position with the American Express Company, with whom he remained two years. He then became "buyer under chief warden, General Bridges, of the Massachusetts State Prison, at Charlestown, where he remained about three years. At the time of the riot among the prisoners of that institution, had it not been for the tact used by the warden, many of the prisoners would have escaped, and the death of many of the keepers would doubtless have ensued. Mr. Jordan was in the room at the hour of the outbreak, but escaped uninjured. After severing his connec- tion with the prison, he was employed in the Wyman Brothers' produce market, in Boston, then entered the wholesale produce business. Later he sold the last-named business and re- turned to Lisbon, Maine, and in July, 1905, purchased the grocery business of W. W.
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Smith, which he has successfully conducted since. Mr. Jordan is identified with the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Knights of the Golden Eagle, Modern Woodmen of America. In his political affilia- tions he is a Republican, while in church con- nection he is an attendant of the Methodist Episcopal denomination. He married, Decem- ber 25, 1891, Annie L., daughter of Roscoe G. and Christine (Whitney) Green, of Lis- bon, Maine. They have three children : Louise Beatrice, Marion Thelma and Kenneth N.
JORDAN The Jordans of the following sketch are thought to be de- scended from that pioncer clergyman, Rev. Robert Jordan, who, in 1641, was established at Richmond's Island, now Portland.
(I) Joseph Jordan resided in Oldtown, Maine. In 1849 he joined the great army of gold seekers and went to California. After reaching that very remote territory he wrote that he had struck a paying claim, and as an evidence of his success he remitted to his family $1,800 in gold. This was the last ever heard of him, and what his fate was has never been discovered. He married and had chil- dren: Frank, a sailor, who was drowned at sea ; Annie E., married E. E. Hues, of Haver- hill, Massachusetts; George I.
(II) George Ivory, youngest child of Jo- seph Jordan, was born in Oldtown, May 16, 1836. He was educated in the common schools, and at an early age learned the shoemaker's trade. In 1862 he enlisted in response to the call of the president for volunteers to serve nine months, and was a private in Captain Libby's company, Twelfth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and served in the Army of the Potomac. He was for some time a mariner sailing with Captain Ivory Grant. Afterward he was employed in a woolen mill, and finally went into the manufacture of pick- ers for use in woolen mills, and was engaged in that business until the end of his active life. In political faith he was a Republican. He was selectman, street commissioner, and filled other minor offices. He married, in Rochester, New Hampshire, January 26, 1862, Elizabeth A. Downes, born in Dover, New Hampshire, December 27, 1840, died October 13, 1904. The children of this marriage were : Clara E., Hattie J., Lillie M., Fred (died young), Frank H., Fred G. and George E. (III) Dr. Frank Herbert, second son of George Ivory and Elizabeth A. (Downes) Jor- dan, was born in Milton, Strafford county,
New Hampshire, September 13, 1868. From the common schools he went to the New Hampton Literary and Biblical Institute, from which he graduated in 1896. He then began the study of medicine, and graduated from the Maine Medical College with the class of 1899. He began the practice of his profession in Fryeburg, Maine, soon after graduation, and remained there until November 15, 1904, when he removed to South Portland, Maine, where he has since resided, and where he now has a successful practice. He is a member of the Maine Medical Association, the Amer- ican Medical Association, and the Portland Medical Club. He is a member of the Bap- tist church at Milton, New Hampshire. Dr. Jordan is a Republican in politics, and has held several political offices. He was superintend- ent of schools and treasurer of the fire dis- trict in Fryeburg, and entered upon a term as city physician of South Portland the past year (1908). His interest in secret fraternal so- cieties is pronounced, and he is a brother in various organizations. He is a member of Pythagorean Lodge, No. 11, Free and Ac- cepted Masons, of Fryeburg ; Oriental Royal Arch Chapter, No. 30; Oriental Command- ery, No. 30, Knights Templar ; and Kora Tem- ple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine, of Lewiston. Also Strafford Lodge, No. 2, Ancient Order United Workmen, Mil- ton, New Hampshire, and John H. Varney Camp No. 3, Sons of Veterans. He became a member of Madockawando Tribe, No. 21, Improved Order of Red Men, of Milton, New Hampshire. After moving to Fryeburg he organized Sabattis Tribe, No. 47, and after passing through the chairs was elected to an office in the Great Council of Maine ; afterward was elected great sachem of the Reservation of Maine, serving in 1905-06, and for four years past has been representative to the Great Council of the United States.
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