David Starr JORDAN

Background

JORDAN, David Starr was born on January 19, 1851 in 19 January 1851, Gainesville, 1090 Wyoming County. 2nd son of Hiram Jordan, teacher and farmer, and Hulda Lake, daughter of David Hawley of Warsaw, New York, ancestry from Devon.

Education

Master of Science, Cornell, 1872. Doctor of Medicine Indiana Medical College, 1875. Doctor of Philosophy, Butler University, 1878.

Doctor of Laws, Cornell, 1886, Johns Hopkins, 1902, Illinois College, 1903, Indiana University, 1909, University of California, 1913, Western Reserve University, 1915.

Career

Instructor botany, Cornell, 1871-1872. Professor natural history Lombard University, 1872-1883. Principal Appleton (Wisconsin) Collegiate Institute, 1873-1874.

Teacher Indianapolis High School, 1874-1875.

Professor biology, Butler University, 1875-1879. Professor zoölogy, 1879-1885, president, 1885-1891, Indiana U.

President Stanford, 1891-1913, chancellor, 1913-1916, emeritus. Coöperating assistant to the United States Fish Commission, 1877-1891, 1894-1909.

Also United States commissioner in charge of fur seal and salmon investigations.

International commissioner of fisheries, 1908-1910. Chief director World Peace Foundation, 1910-1914. President World’s Peace Congress, 1915.

Vice president American Peace Society President American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1909-1910, National Education Association, 1915.

Author: Manual of Vertebrate Animals of Northern United States, 1876-1929. Science Sketches, 1887.

Fishes of North and Middle America, 4 volumes (with B. West. Evermann), 1896.

Care and Culture of Men, 1896.

The Innumerable Company, 1896. To Barbara (verse), 1897. Footnotes to Evolution, 1898.

The Story of Matka, 1898.

Book of Knight and Barbara (stories), 1899. Imperial Democracy, 1899.

The Strength of Being Clean, 1900. Standeth God Within the Shadow, 1900.

Animal Life (with V. L. Kellogg), 1900.

The Philosophy of Hope, 1902. The Blood of the Nation, 1902. Animal Forms (with others), 1903.

Voice of the Scholar, 1903.

Food and Game Fishes of North America (with B. West. Evermann), 1905. A Guide to the Study of Fishes, 1905.

The Call of the Twentieth Century, 1905. The Human Harvest, 1907.

Evolution and Animal Life (with V. L. Kellogg), 1907.

Fishes, 1907. Life’s Enthusiasms, 1907. College and the Manitoba, 1907.

The Higher Sacrifice, 1908.

Fish Stories (with C. F. Holder), 1908. The Religion of a Sensible American, 1909. The Stability of Truth, 1909.

The Fate of Iciodorum, 1909.

Unseen Empire, 1912; War’s Aftermath (with Harvey East. Jordan), 1912. Eric’s Book of Beasts (children), 1913.

War and Waste, 1914. World Peace and the College Manitoba, 1914.

War and the Breed, 1915. Ways to Lasting Peace, 1915.

Alsace-Lorraine, a Study in Conquest, 1915. The Genera of Fishes, 1918-1920, 4 parts.

Democracy and World Relations, 1918.

Fossil Fishes of Southern California, 1919-1926, 9 parts. The Days of a Manitoba, 1922. Autobiography (2 volumes).

Classification of Fishes, 1922.

(with K. Doctorate. Cather) High Lights of Geography, North America, 1925, Europe, 1925. The Higher Foolishness, 1927.

Your Family Tree (with South. L. Kimball), 1929. The Trend of the American University, 1929.

Home: Stanford University, California.

Achievements

• David Starr Jordan has been listed as a notable educator, author, naturalist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Clubs: University, Bohemian.

• Clubs: University, Bohemian.

Interests

• Baseball in younger days. Mountaineering, Matterhorn, 1881, and various peaks in Switzerland, Norway, North Carolina, and the Sierra Nevada of California (United States) Natural history field work in all parts of United States. and Canada, besides Cuba, Mexico, Japan, Hawaii, Samoa, Australia, et cetera

Connections

Married Susan Bowen, March 10, 1875 (died 1885). Married second, Jessie L. Knight, August 10, 1887. Children: Edith, Harold, Thora (deceased), Knight, Barbara (deceased), Eric (deceased).

Father:

Hiram Jordan

Mother:

Huldah Lake (Hawley) Jordan

Spouse:

Jessie L. Knight

Spouse:

Susan Bowen

child:

Eric Jordan (deceased)

child:

Knight Jordan

child:

Edith Jordan

child:

Harold Jordan

child:

Thora Jordan (deceased)

child:

Barbara Jordan (deceased)