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  Samuel Jordan Kirkwood
Born on December 20, 1813, to a wealthy Maryland family, Samuel Kirkwood became famous as the governor of Iowa during the Civil War.
In 1823 young Samuel was sent to Washington, D.C., for four years to study Latin and Greek.
He moved to the county seat in 1841 and two years later, after studying law, he was admitted to the bar.
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  Captain Samuel Jordan
Captain Samuel Jordan was from Dorsetshire in England, the son of Thomas Jordan.
Nicholas Jordan, Robert Jordan, Bartholomew Jugobrickson, John Prescott, Thomas Blanch, Patent 1000 acres in Lower Norfolk Co., adjoining the Mill Land at the head of Purle Creek in the southward branch of Elizabeth River, Sept. 29, 1666.
Richard Jordan Sr.* of Isle of Wight Co., Patent 360 acres in the lower parish of Isle of Wight Co., on the N.W. side of the head of the lower bay creek and mouth of the main Cypress Swamp, adjoining Richard Reynold's Richard Jordan.
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 Bio of Edward Clarence Jordan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Jordan's preliminary education was in the public schools and Westbrook Seminary; and for two years he was a student and assistant in the engineering office of the late John F. Anderson.
Jordan has been in the active practice of civil engineering, with his office in Portland, Me. He rarely engages in regular railroad practice, but is frequently employed in special cases, and is often called as an expert in the trial of causes in the Courts.
Jordan is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, an association exclusive and difficult of access, to qualify for admission to which, the applicant must be thoroughly educated and have done original approved work, and must be a gentleman of recognized high character.
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 Jordan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Sarah Ann JORDAN was born 1819 in Wetumpka AL.
Samuel DILLARD was born 1756 in Concord, Pitts, VA, and died 1805
Samuel BOZEMAN was born 1758 in Bladen Co NC, and died AFT.
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 Samuel Jordan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Samuel Jordan (1578 1623), was an early Jamestown settler and one of the first American colonial legislators, born in Wiltshire, England, son of Robert Jordan.
The Jordans, or Jourdains, were of French descent, Huguenots associated with the protestant reformation.
Jordan traveled to the New World as part of the "Third Supply" of the Virginia Company, to the first English colony at Jamestown.
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 PerformInk Online
Samuel Lamar Jordan, actor and playwright, formerly of Chicago, Illinois, Memphis, Tennessee, and Boston, Massachusetts, died Tuesday August 8, 2000, at Providence St. Joseph's Hospital, Burbank, California, of complications of aplastic anemia.
Samuel Jordan was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, where he displayed acting talent at an early age.
A celebration of Samuel Jordan's life will be held on Saturday, August 26, 2000 at 3:00 PM in the Main Stage Theater of the University of Memphis, Central Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee.
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 Gregg Martin WAGER
Jordan was regarded with suspicion and hostility by the Puritans of Massachusetts, who forbade him to baptize or marry.
Jordan was arrested and imprisoned twice, in 1654 and 1663.
Jordan interposed in her behalf: and said his cow dyed by his servants negligence, and to cover their own fault they were willing to have it imputed to witchcraft; and Mr.
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 2 Samuel - Chapter 17 - Matthew Henry Complete Commentary on StudyLight.org
Perhaps, as he was called in to give advice (2 Samuel 17:5), so he was dismissed before they came to that resolve (2 Samuel 17:14) in favour of his advice, or he feared they might afterwards change their mind.
Being thus preserved, they brought their intelligence very faithfully to David (2 Samuel 17:21), with this advice of his friends, that he should not delay to pass over Jordan, near to which, it seems, he now was.
Machir, the son of Ammiel, was he that maintained Mephibosheth (2 Samuel 9:4), till David eased him of that charge, and is now repaid for it by that generous man, who, it seems, was the common patron of distressed princes.
www.studylight.org /com/mhc-com/view.cgi?book=2sa&chapter=017   (4185 words)

  
 Dempsey and Samuel Jordan
Samuel, born in Virginia or Province of Carolina in 1749; died in March 1835 at the house of his brother Charles in Walton County, Georgia.
JORDAN: Charles Jourdan was taxed on the Mulberry Fork (Burge's district) in 1801, Radford was in the 1805 lottery list in Jackson County and in 1807, Samuel was in Cochran's district on Mulberry in 1807.
The Declaration of his widow, Sarah Jordan, made in 1836 and 1837 state that she was married to Dempsey by David Holloman, a Justice of the Peace, at Fort Alexander in January 1777, while he was a soldier.
www.rootsweb.com /~gawilkes/kettle/dempsey_and_samuel_jordan.htm   (2065 words)

  
 Ancestors
Right by the side of the road at the subdivision is a state marker declaring this peninsula to be Jordan's Journey with all the details of Samuel Jordan arriving there in 1610 and escaping the Powhatan massacre.
Samuel Jordan's son, Robert, was killed in the Indian Massacre of 1622 at Berkley Hundred in Charles City trying to warn their neighbors across the water of the impending Indian attack.
Where Samuel and Cicely's house actually was is where the base of the Benjamin Harrison Bridge is now that connects both sides of the river.
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 Army Charges Abu Ghraib Officer
Steven L. Jordan is expected to be charged by Friday by the Army with dereliction of duty, conduct unbecoming an officer, lying to investigators and other crimes, according to his attorney, Samuel Spitzberg.
Jordan would be the highest-ranking officer to face charges in connection with abuse of prisoners at the facility.
Jordan, a reservist who has remained on active duty for three years, is currently stationed in the Washington area, Spitzberg said.
www.military.com /NewsContent/0,13319,95418,00.html   (405 words)

  
 KinNextions (Public Version) - aqwg356   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Samuel JORDAN was born estimated 1570 in England.
Jordan, one of the most educated on the ship, was chosen to keep a journal of the proceedings, published in London under the title A Disscovery of Bermudas.
Samuel was granted 450 acres of land in his own right and 250 acres more for transporting his five servants.
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 Notes for Samuel Silas Jordan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Samuel Jordan was born in Wiltshire, England in about the year 1578, being the son of Richard Jordan.
Samuel Jordan, the first of the Jordans to come to America, left Plymouth, England on June 18, 1609, and sailed for James Towne with the interim governor, Sir Thomas West.
Samuel Jordan was a member of the London Company which established the first legislative assembly in American at Jamestown.
www.ronulrich.com /rfuged/nti05624.htm   (396 words)

  
 Gov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Samuel was born into a wealthy Republican family.
In 1813 Samuel was born, he was born in the Harford Country of the state of Maryland on December 20.
In 1863 His adopted son, Samuel Kirkwood Clark, died at the battle at Arkansas Post in the Civil War, at this time he was the Governor of the state of Iowa.
www.iowa-city.k12.ia.us /Schools/kirkwood/gov.html   (305 words)

  
 Harriet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Jonas Jordan, born 1725 in VA; died 1785.
Samuel Jordan, born 1679 in Chuckatuk, Nansemond, VA; died
Samuel Jordan, born 1679 in Chuckatuk, Nansemond, VA;
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 Jordan (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net
Down through the midst of the "plain of Jordan" there winds a ravine varying in breadth from 200 yards to half a mile, and in depth from 40 to 150 feet.
The total length of the Jordan from Banias is about 104 miles in a straight line, during which it falls 2,380 feet.
The first historical notice of the Jordan is in the account of the separation of Abraham and Lot (Gen.
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 Allen_Samuel_ Jordan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Samuel Jordan Allen was born in Williamson County, Tennessee in February 1838.
In 1900 Samuel and Mary lived in the 5th Civil District of Williamson County, Tennessee.
James Vinson was in the household of his grandparents, Samuel and Mary Allen in 1880.
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 About the Center for Persian Studies and Culture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Jordan served as president of the institution from 1899- 1940 and 1940 and during his period of leadership played a significant role in the growth of Alborz from an elementary school to a famous and respected college.
The Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture, established by the School of Humanities in collaboration with the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, is a center dedicated to drawing on the strengths of the entire UC Irvine campus.
The Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture was made possible through the generosity of Dr. Fariborz Maseeh and The Massiah Foundation.
www.humanities.uci.edu /persianstudies/about/about.html   (305 words)

  
 SIXTH GENERATION
Jordan Bowlby of Helmsley, Thomas' uncle, published his will 25 May 1714, in which Thomas Bowlby of Mansfield Woodhouse and Thomas' son, Jordan were named sole executors, and Jordan was named a principal heir.
Samuel Bowlby was to have been the major recipient of his grandfather's considerable properties in England and America; he was also to have had the duties of administrating the bequests made to his family and other heirs.
Jordan, the eldest son, is no mentioned and may be assumed deceased at that time.
www.bowlbyfamily.org /ancestor/d60.htm   (1713 words)

  
 Jordan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Samuel Jordan was aboard the Sea Venture, as were Sir Thomas Gates, theG overnor, and Sir George Somers, when it encountered a severe storm off the coast of Bermuda in the latter p a r t o f 1609.
Samuel Jordan also was educated and was one of the authors of "The Book of The Fowler", which was the first constitution in the New World.
Samuel was a member of the first House of Burgesses, a representative of St, James City, which convened in 1619 by George Yeardley, Governor and captain General of Virginia.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Jordan
Jordan JORDAN [Jordan] officially Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, kingdom (2005 est.
Jordan, the al-Aqsa intifada and America's "war on terror".
Jordan: situated on the eastern limits of the Levant, Jordan is a fledgling country in an ancient land.
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 Cox Ancestry
Jordan COCKS or COX [Joseph-4, Samuel-3, Henry-2, James-1] was born 18 June 1765, probably at Crum Elbow, Dutchess Co., or nearby in Westchester County, New York.
Jordan was reinstated into the Friends Church 22 May 1823, and he and Mary were prominent members of the Wheatland Meeting, with Jordan being an overseer in 1836.
Jordan farmed in Henry County, Iowa, until March 1852, when he and his family started overland to California with his sister Catherine (COX) FORD and her family, and perhaps his brother William COX, as well [44, 45].
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 SAMUEL JORDAN
Samuel Jordan represented Charles City at the first representative legislative assembly in the new world which convened at Jamestown, 30 July 1619.
Samuel Jordan married Sisley (Cicely) [---], who came to Virginia in 1611 and was listed in the census of 1623/4 at "Jordan's Journey." (See below) She presumably was the widow of [---] Baley and mother of Temperance Baley.
Samuel Jourdan was a member of House of Burgesses 1619 and of the first Legislature that convened in America.
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 Kymm Coveney's Ancestry - Person Page 41
Samuel Jordan was born circa 1660 at Falmouth, Cumberland, ME. He was the son of Rev.
Elizabeth Jordan was born in 1690 at Spurwick, Falmouth, ME. She was the daughter of Dominicus Jordan and Hannah Tristram.
Hannah Jordan was born in 1693 at Spurwick, Falmouth, ME. She was the daughter of Dominicus Jordan and Hannah Tristram.
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 American President   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Samuel Jordan Kirkwood was born in 1813 in Harford County, Maryland.
After early schooling at an academy in Washington, D.C., and a brief career as a drugstore clerk, Kirkwood moved with his family moved to Richland County, Ohio, where he worked as a teacher and a deputy county assessor.
Samuel Jordan Kirkwood returned to Iowa, launched an unsuccessful campaign to become a United States Representative in 1886, and died in 1894.
www.americanpresident.org /history/chesterccrthur/cabinet/SecretaryoftheInterior/SamuelJKirkwood/email.html   (281 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Jordan
Jordan, Leonard Beck (1899-1983) — also known as Len B. Jordan — of Idaho.
Jordan, Nick — of Shawnee, Johnson County, Kan. Republican.
Son of Clement Jordan and Charlotte (Knight) Jordan; married 1888 to Emma D. Dyer.
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 These Jordans Were Here
Samuel Jordan was one of the first discussed in this book along with Thomas Jordan and George Jordan.
XX Samuel Jordan, Son of Thomas Jordan of Chuckatuck.....
XXI Joshua Jordan, Son of Thomas Jordan of Chuckatuck.....
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 Richard Jordan Family Chronology 1720 – 1780
of Nottoway parish in Isle of Wight to Samuel Tuder of Lawnes Creek Parish in Surry, 200a.
Later records suggest he was a son of Robert Jordan.  The significance of the deposition is that John Persons owned the land on the south bank of Johnchecohunk Swamp immediately opposite to the original Richard Jordan II plantation (part of which was left to both Robert and Charles Jordan).
This Josiah Jordan is a resident of Isle of Wight, as was Ricks.  He appears in the Surry records because the plaintiff had to bring suit in the county where the defendant resided.  The plaintiff was often, as in this case, a resident of another county.
www.genfiles.com /jordan/Jordanchron1720-1780.htm   (8000 words)

  
 SAMUEL P. JORDAN SR.
Jordan was a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, having served from 1941 to 1970.
Jordan of Stafford, Va.; three sisters, Lillian J. Britton of Chesapeake, Virginia J. Bailey of Windsor and Edna W. Cornett of Phoenix, Ariz.; and seven grandchildren.
Jordan was predeceased by a son, Dan L. Jordan.
scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1997/vp970223/02230121.htm   (200 words)

  
 Samuel M. Jordan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Samuel Martin Jordan (1871-1952) was an American presbyterian missionary in Persia.
Jordan served as president of the institution from 1899- 1940.
Jordan's quote about smoking is still remembered at Alborz: "Cigarette is a pipe with fire at one end and an idiot at the other end".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samuel_M._Jordan   (353 words)

  
 Touch the Elbow - Letter to the Milford Daily News Editors
George Thompson was a sergeant in Co. I, 18th Massachusetts Infantry, and was responsible for the re-enlistment of Samuel Jordan in the 18th Mass.
Samuel Jordan purchased land in Wrentham, MA on Dec. 17, 1867, in an area now incorporated into Norfolk, MA.
Samuel Jordan died at his home in Franklin, MA on Dec. 29, 1898 of Bright's disease and was buried in the Union Street Cemetery.
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