Jordan, Chester B. (1839-1914)

Name:

Jordan, Chester B. (1839-1914)

Title:

Superintendent of Schools, Town of Colebrook, 1865-1867
Selectman, Town of Colebrook, 1867
Clerk of Courts, County of Coos, 1868-1874
Editor and Publisher, Coos Republican
Member, New Hampshire House of Represeantatives, 1880
Speaker, New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1881-1883
Member, New Hampshire State Senate, 1896
President, New Hampshire State Senate, 1897-1899
Governor, State of New Hampshire, 1901--1903
Honorary Member, Webster Historical Society, 1883
Honorary Member, 7th New Hampshire Veterans Association, 1884
Vice President, Grafton and Coos Bar Association
Clerk, Upper Coos Railroad, -1913
Member, Evening Star Lodge, F. & A. M., Colebrook
Member, North Star Chapter, F. & A. M., Lancaster

Other Names:

Jordan, Chester Bradley

Born:

10/15/1839

Birthplace:

Colebrook, NH

Died:

08/24/1914

Death Location:

Lancaster, NH

Residence:

Colebrook, NH 1839-1868
Lancaster, NH 1868-1914

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Teacher
Lawyer

Father:

Jordan, Johnson

Mother:

Buel, Minerva

Relations:

Partnership, Ray, Drew and Jordan, 1876
Partnership, Ray, Drew, Jordan and Carpenter, 1882
Partnership, Drew and Jordan
Partnership, Drew, Jordan and Buckley
Partnership, Drew, Jordan, Buckley and Shurtleff
Partnership, Drew, Jordan and Shurtleff
Partnership, Drew, Jordan, Shurtleff and Morris, -1910

Spouse:

Ida Rose Nutter (1860-1920), July 19, 1879

Children:

Roxanna Minerva, born January 19, 1882
Hugo, born May 26, 1884; died May 2, 1886
Gladstone, born May 15, 1888
Chester Bradley, born February 15, 1892

Notes:

Charles Hardon, "Lancaster: One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary... The Granite Monthly, 46(September-October, 1914)9-10, 300-302.

Chester B. Jordan, Jr. Chester Bradley Jordan: The Man and Citizen. Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1916.

Chester B. Jordan Papers (2014.083), NHHS Library

Summer Street Cemetery, Lancaster, NH