W. B. JORDAN
W. B. Jordan is the immediate successor of C. C. Conrad, who came to Atlantic in 1873, from Linn county, and bought out Patrick Kirby's boot and shoe establishment, which had been instituted by that gentleman in the early days of the town's history.
W. B. Jordan, proprietor of the leading boot and shoe house in the city of Atlantic, engaged here in that business, October 4, 1883, succeeding C. C. Conrad, who followed Patrick Kirby, who established the business early in the history of Atlantic. He carries a large and complete stock, amounting at present, October 1884, to over sixteen thousand dollars. His sales for the year ending September 30, 1884, were about twenty thousand dollars. He is located at 416 Chestnut Street, in the I. O. O. F. block. Mr. Jordan was born near Sandusky, Seneca county, Ohio, in 1850. In 1866, he went to Rock Island, Illinois, where his parents still reside. He came to Atlantic in 1870, and engaged in farming and stock raising. In 1880 he went to Nebraska and opened a ranch in Wayne county, where he still owns four hundred and eighty acres of improved land. He was there engaged in sheep raising and wool growing. Having property here, he returned and exchanged his farm here, for his present store. Mr. Jordan was married here to Mary R. Morris, daughter of Dr. J. R. Morris. They have five children--Ella T., Ethel, Brice Morris, Jessie E. and William Bartlett.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex 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, pg. 860.
