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Box 3

 Container

Contains 7 Results:

Jordan family news clippings, 1862 - 1977

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 1
Identifier: Sub-Series 1.4
Scope and Contents

News clippings about Portland Terminal project ca. 1912, as well as family marriage announcements, obituaries, and feature stories. Included as well as an entire issue of the Portland Daily Advertiser, November 25, 1862.

Dates: 1862 - 1977

Godey's Lady's Book prints, 1850

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 2
Identifier: Sub-Series 1.4
Scope and Contents

Printers and engravers include W.E. Tucker, J.I. Pease, P.S. Duval, S. Dainty, and J.M. Butler. Prints filed with HIJ genealogical binders, labeled "Jordan Godey prints."

Dates: 1850

Horace Jordan correspondence, 1853 - 1925

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 3-4
Identifier: Sub-Series 1.4
Scope and Contents

Brother of ECJ1. Folder 4 includes his Civil War draft exemption and signed oath of loyalty to the United States.

Dates: 1853 - 1925

Marcia Bradbury Jordan papers, 1917 - 1935

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 6
Identifier: Sub-Series 1.4
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, draft of her 1922 talk about book plates, write-up regarding this talk from 1935, her estate documents, and a list of Bradbury family heirlooms.

Dates: 1917 - 1935

Bradbury family papers, n.d.

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 7
Identifier: Sub-Series 1.4
Scope and Contents

Includes typescript excerpt from diary of Sarah Jones Bradbury, 1750-1766, as well as typescript notes about diary by ECJ1 and an undated letter to Marcia (likely Bradbury, wife of ECJ1), on Library of Congress Reading Room stationery, from Horace Jordan, brother of ECJ1. ECJ1 notes that the origin of the excerpt is unknown, and thus not definitively verified.

Dates: n.d.

Henry I. Jordan correspondence, 1859 - 1869

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 5
Identifier: Sub-Series 1.4
Scope and Contents

Brother of ECJ1. Most letters addressed to Henry while he was at Bowdoin College, many from his father Samuel Jordan.

Dates: 1859 - 1869

Boody family journal and letter, 1844 - 1861

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 8
Identifier: Sub-Series 1.4
Scope and Contents

Boody family member journal recording events from 1844-1845, and a letter found tucked inside addressed to Nathan S. Boody from Elisha W. Wallace, on Union Army stationery, dated Sept. 13, 1861, from Camp Vernon, Alexandria, Va. The letter requests that Boody invest the enclosed $50.00 service earnings for Wallace.

Dates: 1844 - 1861