JAMES JORDAN
James Jordan resides upon the southeast quarter of section 16, of Benton township. He also owns eighty acres in section 21, having in all, one hundred and sixty acres. Mr. Jordan located here in May, 1868. No improvements had then been made upon his land. The nearest residence to his was, at that time, that of James M. Brown two and a half miles distant. He was born in Monroe county, Indiana, in 1842. When he was thirteen years old, his father died and he went to what is now Ford county, Illinois, and resided with an elder brother, till 1862, when he returned to Indiana and enlisted in the Fifty;-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He served until September 11, 1863, when he was discharged for disability. He participated in the battle of Corinth and the siege of Vicksburg. After his discharge, he returned to Illinois, and was there married, in 1865, to Agnes Dungan, who was born near Madison, Indiana. Soon after his marriage he returned to Indiana and remained there from the spring of 1866, till August, 1867, when he came to this county and passed the first winter near Grove City, locating here, as before stated, in the spring following. He has been one of the prominent farmers and officials of the township. He has been assessor seven years, and still holds that office; township trustee three years and secretary of school board, twelve years. He is a Republican politically. Mr. and Mrs. Jordan are the parents of six living children -- Emma, Mary, Arthur, Myrtle, James w. and Grace. They lost two children, Lettie and an infant son, Homer.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 644-645.
