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THE MINNESOTA 
HORTICULTURIST. 
VOL. 28. JUNE, 1900. No. 6. 
In Memoriam, 
EUGENE B. JORDAN, 
ONTARIO, CALIFORNIA. 
Died March 10, 1900, aged 62 years. 
(See Frontispiece.) 
Of the early life of Mr. E. B. Jordan little is known to the writer be- 
yond the fact that he graduated from Beloit College, Wisconsin. He re- 
moved to Rochester, Minn., in 1865, and the following year engaged in the 
nursery and fruit business on the place now occupied by Mr: R. C. Keel, on 
the hills two miles east of Rochester. With great faith in the future of fruit 
growing in his adopted state-he proceeded to plant large orchards on the 
hill sides of his farm, which intelligent care soon brought into profitable 
bearing. The exact figures as to the size of these orchards are not at this 
moment available, but they covered a large portion of the farm and were 
greater in extent than any similar plantings at that time, and perhaps they 
have not yet been surpassed in our state. 
Mr. Jordan was a man of great energy, with large ideas, and the force 
and: system needed to carry them out successfully. As such he impressed 
himself very forcefully upon the horticulture of the state during the eighteen 
years he remained in Minnesota. Upon the organization of this’ society he 
allied himself with it, his name appearing on the rolls first in the year 1868, 
its third year. From that time on to 1887 he was almost continuously a 
member and one of the most active of its workers, as becomes at once ap- 
parent in looking through the reports covering the intervening years. 
An increasing interest in horticultural pursuits in 1887 took him out of 
the state to Florida, where he remained some years growing and shipping 
orange trees in great quantities to California, until at length he removed to 
southern California, still continuing in the nursery business. 
His business operations proving successful financially he was enabled 
to retire from active work some years since and care for his declining 
health. 
After eight years of invalidism he closed a useful life March 10, 1900, 
leaving behind him a wife, one son and two daughters, who all live in the 
near vicinity. 
There are many others to recall his excellent qualities and mourn his 
loss. 
