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Some 



American 



Jordans 



A missing 

 link 



periment Station at Geneva, New York, and Dr. 

 Edwin Oakes Jordan, professor of Bacteriology in 

 the University of Chicago. Others emigrated to 

 Virginia, and their descendants are widely scattered 

 through the West. My forebears settled early in 

 Connecticut, moving from there to New York.^ 

 Edward Jordan, my father's first cousin, was Solicitor 

 of the Treasury under Lincoln, and later a prominent 

 attorney in New York. His daughter, Mary A. 

 Jordan, for many years professor of English in 

 Smith College, is a brilliant teacher, with unusual 

 influence over her students. Dr. Harvey E. Jordan, ^ 

 as I have explained, is doubtless distantly related to me. 

 In the case of my own branch the connection with 

 Jordan in Devon, though highly probable, is not — 

 as I have elsewhere indicated' — clearly established. 

 The affirmative evidence may be briefly stated: {a) 

 Mrs. McConnel says that one Jordan with the some- 

 what unusual name of Rufus, also borne by my grand- 

 father, is known to have left Devon for America; 



(b) the name of Jordan is uncommon in England; 



(c) the neighbors of my Connecticut forebears came 

 largely from Devon, and all English Jordans whose 

 lineage is definitely known are from the same region. 



Collateral relatives of my mother still live in 

 Devon. We found Lakes in Exeter, Granvilles 

 about Kilhampton and Bideford, Courtenays at 

 Dunster.^ 



At Stratford we found the Hoovers settled (for 



1 See Vol. I, Chapter i:i. - See Chapter XL, page 424. 



' See Vol. I, Appendix A, page 665. 



< The witty Marquis of Devonshire is said to be a Courtenay. Illustrating 

 the futility of the British Upper House, he remarked: "I once fell asleep and 

 dreamed that I was addressing the House of Lords. I awoke and found that I 

 was addressing the House of Lords." 



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