NOBLE COUNTY OHIO - BIO: Jacob Jordan (1887)

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Transcribed by Deb Murray.

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Jacob Jordan and his sons, Adam and Peter, were among the earliest settlers
near the township line in the vicinity of Hiramsburg. Henry Hamilton, a
brother-in-law of Jacob Jordan, was an early settler in the same
neighborhood. While this was still a part of Guernsey County, elections
were held at the house of the Jordans.

Jacob Jordan, a Revolutionary soldier, came to this township in 1810 and
left it in 1818. His son Peter was born in Greene County, Pa., in 1797,
came to this county when young, and died in Brookfield Township in 1868. He
married Rachel Albin, whose father, James Albin, was a Revolutionary
soldier. Mrs. Jordan was born in Virginia in 1791. She died in 1881. Peter
Jordan came to the farm on which John Jordan now lives in 1814. The whole
country was then very wild, and bears, wolves, and panthers inhabited it..
Mrs. Jordan brought from Guernsey county a willow sprout which she used as
a riding whip, and on reaching her home stuck in in the ground. It grew
into a tree and is now about seventy years old, and fifteen feet in
circumference. John Jordan was born in Brookfield Township December 23,
1823. In 1845 he married Nancy Downey, a native of Buffalo Township. They
have five sons and four daughters. Of their sons P.D. Jordan is a merchant,
postmaster, notary and a railroad agent; S.S. Jordan is a farmer and carp

History of Noble County, Ohio Published by 
L.H. Watkins & Co. of Chicago 1887
Brookfield