Greene County PA Archives Biographies.....Jordan, Robert H. ???? - ????
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Source: Biographical History of Greene County, Nelson, Rishforth, and Co, Chicago, 1888
Author: Samuel P. Bates

     Robert H Jordan, farmer, born in Washington township, 
Greene county, Penna, is a son of Silas Jordan and Sarah 
McCormick Jordan. His parents were natives of Greene county, 
Penna, and of Irish and English lineage. His grandfather, 
John Jordan, was a pioneer millwright of this county. His 
father was also a millwright and carpenter. His family 
consisted of eight children of whom Robert H was the 
second. 
  
     Robert was reared in Jefferson and received a common 
school education. Early in life he learned the carpenter 
trade, which occupation he followed for many years. He was 
twice married; his first wife, Harriet, daughter of John 
Daniels, was a native of Ohio. By this union there were 
three children, all of whom died young. Mrs Jordan died in 
1873. Mr Jordan was afterward united in marriage in 1874 
with the widow of Gideon John of Waynesburg, Penna. Mr and 
Mrs John's children were: F J John, druggist; R S John, a 
jeweler at Waynesburg; and Harry H John, at home in school. 
Their father was born in Washington county, Penna, and was 
of English extraction; he died in 1870. 
  
  Mr and Mrs Jordan have one child: James Leroy Jordan. 
  
     Mr Jordan is the owner of a farm of sixty eight acres. 
He is a member of the town council and president of the 
school board of Jefferson borough, also was at one time a 
member of the executive committee of Monongahela College. He 
is an upright temperance man, and one of the leading members 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

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