Background
Jordan was born on December 26, 1937 in Williamson County, Texas, United States; the daughter of John Herbert Hanson and Ruth Linnea Swenson.
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This history explores the lives and trials of the accused during Sweden's seventeenth-century witch hunts. It may come as a surprise that Sweden had a witch hunt and that it was a precursor to Salem's witch trials. Märit Hansdotter and Karl Karlsson lived in an age of war, religious upheaval, and general discord. Their home, Karlsgården, was the site of tremendous heartache, tragedy, love and survival. It overlooked the Ljusnan River on a pilgrimage road between Uppsala and Saint Olaf's shrine in Norway. Märit was sentenced to death, twice, for things she could not have done. Karl was sentenced to death, twice, for things he might have done. Tapping into numerous historical sources-most of them unavailable in English-author and historian Charlene Hanson Jordan details the customs, traditions, relationships, and lifestyles of seventeenth-century Sweden while exploring her family's history and considering the dangers of an imbalance of power between church and state that allowed the development and spreading of an extreme notion about evil.
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2012
Jordan was born on December 26, 1937 in Williamson County, Texas, United States; the daughter of John Herbert Hanson and Ruth Linnea Swenson.
Jordan received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Houston in 1960.
Jordan began her career as a travel consultant at Harvey Travel Agency in Houston in 1957. Three years later she took a position of a foreign service staff at the United States State Department and a passport adjudicator at the United States Passport Office.
In 1962, Charlene became a manager of tours sales in Scandinavian Airlines and held it for three years. In 1972, she served as a travel consultant at Schiller College. A year later Charlene held the position of an assistant to director at German Convention Bureau.
She was an owner and operator special interest groups at travel agency in Austin from 1975 to 1987. In 1998, Jordan became an owner and manager of Ancestral-Home Tours, where she worked until 2010.
In addition to her travelling career, she wrote books, including "Crossroads Elgin", "Twelve Texas Swedish Quarterlies", "Stuck in the Mud at Post Oak Island: History of a Texas Settlement" and "Whispers in the Church: Swedish Witch Hunt, 1672".
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2012Jordan is a member of the International Organization of Swedish Speaking Women, the Elgin History Association, the Vasa Order of America and the Williamson County History Commission.
On September 22, 1962 Charlene Jordan married Henry Goetz Jordan. They have 2 children.