Background
Jordan, Harvey Ernest was born on August 14, 1878 in Coopersburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Genaah and Emma (Harwick) Jordan.
Jordan, Harvey Ernest was born on August 14, 1878 in Coopersburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Genaah and Emma (Harwick) Jordan.
Graduate Keystone State Normal School, Kutztown, Pennsylvania, 1897. Bachelor of Arts, Lehigh University, 1903, Master of Arts, 1904, Doctor of Science, 1941. Student Columbia University, 1905-1906.
Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, summers, 1905, 1906.
Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton, 1907.
Assistant in biology, Lehigh University, 1903-1904. Assistant in histology and embryology, Cornell Univercity Medical College, New York, 1904-1906. On embryol. staff, Brooklyn Academy Arts and Sciences, Cold Springs Harbor, Long Island, summer, 1907, Woods Hole, summer, 1908.
Investigator at Carnegie Institution Biological Station, Dry Tortugas, Florida, spring, 1907, and summer, 1914.
Investigator at Carnegie Institution Biological Station, Montego Bay, Jamaica, spring, 1912. Adjunct professor anatomy, 1907-1909, associate professor, 1909-1911, professor histology and embryology, 1911-1938, professor anatomy and director of the anatomical laboratories, 1938-1949, Medical Department University of Virginia, also dean Department Medicine, 1939-1949, retired.
Member German Reformed Church. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member Society American Naturalists, American Society Zoölogists, American Association Anatomists (1st vice president 1936-1938), American Genetic Association Anatomists (1st vice president 1936-1938), American Genetic Association American Association Physical Anathropologists, American Micros.
Society (president 1940), Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, American Eugenics Society, American Medical Association, Virginia State Medical Society, Virginia Academy Science (president 1937), Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Sigma Kappa, Phi Beta Pi, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Raven Society, Sigma Xi (Executive Committee, 1940-1945), Iota Sigma. Member National Research Council, 1927-1933.
Club: Colonnade.
Married Ilda May Voorhees, June 17, 1908. Children: Mary Kathryn (Mistress Frank Hague, Junior.