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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 511]

    WILLIAM JORDAN, Postmaster of Larrabee, Iowa, was born in Muskingum
    County, Ohio, June 23, 1823.  He is a son of JOHN and TEMPERANCE
    (EDWARDS) JORDAN, natives of the State of Maryland.  The parents
    were among the early settlers of Muskingum County, and saw many of
    the hardships and endured the trials of pioneer days.  When WILLIAM
    was four years old his father died, and at the age of eight years
    his mother removed with her family to Morgan County, Ohio, and later
    to Washington County, that State.  Our subject is the fifth of a
    family of seven children; he was reared to the occupation of a farmer
    and received his education in the common schools of that day.  Mr.
    JORDAN was united in marriage March 18, 1845, in Morgan County, Ohio,
    to Miss SARAH A. SHARP, a daughter of JOHN and SARAH MARY (ANDERSON)
    SHARP.  The following year he decided to make a home for himself in
    a new, untried country, as his father and mother before him had done.
    So he emigrated to Iowa and located in Linn County, three miles from
    Marion, where he was among the earliest settlers.  There he resided
    until 1868, when he removed to Tennessee, where he spent one year.
    Thence he came again to Linn County, and in 1873 he settled in Cedar
    Township, Cherokee County, where he now resides.  He has a good resi-
    dence, and is surrounded with all the comforts of life; his barn and
    other farm buildings are good, substantial structures.  Mr. and Mrs.
    JORDAN are the parents of five children: ADDISON, a resident of Linn
    County, Iowa; JAMES H., of Washington Territory; JOHN A., of Cherokee
    County; KATE, wife of JOSEPH WHITEHEAD, and ETTIE.  Politically Mr.
    JORDAN affiliates with the Democratic party.  He has served his town-
    ship as trustee for ten years, and has been president of the School
    Board for several terms.  He was appointed postmaster in 1887, and
    has been a most efficient and faithful officer.  He is sixty-six
    years old but bears his age lightly, and is yet a young man in spirit.
    He takes an active interest in educational affairs, and gladly supports
    any measures tending to the advancement of the community in which he
    lives.


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