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John Woolf was born on September 14, 1840 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, where his father was a prominent merchant, a member of the grocery and chemical house of Jordan & Brother. He was a descendant of Frederick Jordan of Kent, England, who settled in New Jersey in the second half of the eighteenth century, and the eldest son of Francis and Emily (Woolf) Jordan.
After preliminary education in private schools of his native city, John was sent to Nazareth Hall Military Academy near Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1856.
Lafayette College, in 1902, gave him the degree of LL. D.
After leaving school John was taken into his father's office to learn the business, and when he had reached his majority, was made a member of the firm.
In 1863, when Pennsylvania was invaded by the Confederates, he served as quartermaster-sergeant in Starr's battery, attached to the 32nd Regular Pennsylvania Militia.
He retired from business later, and in 1885 became assistant librarian of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. In 1903 he was elected librarian, and retained that office until his death. He was the author of a number of historical papers, published in the Magazine, among them being "Bethlehem during the Revolution" (January-April 1889) and "Franklin as a Genealogist" (April 1899). He edited W. C. Reichel's Friedensthal and Its Stockaded Mill, 1749-67 (1877) and A Red Rose from the Olden Time (1883), and did most of the work of editing Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer (1893), issued by Jacob Cox Parsons.
His name appeared as chief editor of Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memorials of the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania (1905), and from 1914 until his death, as chief editor of the Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography (vols. I-XIII, 1914 - 21); with these works, however, he had comparatively little to do. He edited and contributed to Colonial Families of Philadelphia (2 vols. , 1911), and Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (3 vols. , 1911). To his editorial work he brought learning and sure knowledge of Pennsylvania history, particularly of the Revolutionary period, and of the Moravian settlements, in both of which fields he was regarded as an authority.
He was vice-president of the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania; vice-president of the Swedish Colonial Society; secretary of the Valley Forge Park Commission; a member of the Commission for the Preservation of Public Records of Pennsylvania.
John Woolf Jordan's most significant work was done as editor of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, which he conducted from 1887 until his death. For its pages he edited many important manuscript sources, including a number of Revolutionary orderly books, "Narrative of John Heckewelder's Journey to the Wabash in 1792" (1888), "Notes of Travel of John Heckewelder to Gnadenhuetten on the Muskingum 1797" (1886), and "Spangenburg's Notes of Travel to Onondaga in 1745" (1878, 1879). Besides Jordan was one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution.
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Jordan was a member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati, of the Pennsylvania Federation of Historical Societies and others.
John Woolf Jordan was married on May 19, 1883, to Anne Page, daughter of Alfred and Rebecca Page, and had issue, two sons and a daughter.
