Biography of William B Jordan, Baxter Co, AR

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COL. WILLIAM B. JORDAN. This gentleman is one of the leading farmers of
Independence Township, Baxter County, Ark., and has followed this calling from
his earliest boyhood, having been initiated into its mysteries by his father. He
was born in Lunenburg County, Va., in 1808, to Baxter Jordan, who was born in
the same county in 1777 and died in 1823, having followed the calling of a
merchant and farmer. His marriage resulted in the birth of two children, William
B., and Thomas, who died in Alabama. The subject of this sketch was educated in
his native county and an adjoining county, and upon attaining his twentieth year
he began farming. In 1835 he left the State of his birth and went to Greene
County, Ala., where he gave his attention to planting and milling, carrying on
the latter occupation very extensively. He remained there until the war closed,
during which time he lost property to the value of about $40,000. He afterward
came to Arkansas and located in Marion county, but now in Baxter County, which
was then covered with primeval forest, and this county he has helped to clear
and develop. His estate comprises 1,000 acres of as fine land as there is in the
county, and he has 400 acres under cultivation. Unlike many who started out in
life with some capital, he did not squander it, but put it to the best use he
could, and being a careful business man he has become wealthy, and now deserves
to rest from the burden and heat of the day. Since his residence in this county
he has served as justice of the peace, an office he also held in Alabama for
many years. While in that State he commanded a regiment of militia, having held
all the lower offices of rank. In 1829 he was married to Miss Phaup, who died
after having borne him two children: Mrs. Sarah Rose, who lives in Greene
County, Ala., and one that died there leaving four children. In 1839 he wedded
Miss Martha Gammil of Greene County, Ala., who bore him three sons and two
daughters, one of whom is the wife of Hon. C. A. Eatman. Col. Jordan is a member
of the A. F. & A. M. and politically is a Democrat. His grandfather served in
the Colonial Army during the Revolution, was an officer and bore the name of
Edward Jordan. The maternal grandfather, John Pettus was also a soldier in that
war, and was in the battle of Guilford Court House, N. C. The Jordans originally
came from England, and down to the present day have been honorable, useful and
law-abiding citizens.


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A REMINISCENT HISTORY OF THE OZARK REGION

COMPRISING A CONDENSED GENERAL HISTORY, A BRIEF DESCRIPTIVE HISTORY OF EACH
COUNTY, AND NUMEROUS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT CITIZENS OF SUCH COUNTIES.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS.
1894.