Background
Redding, Robert Jordan was born on December 28, 1836 in Monroe County, Georgia, United States. Son of Anderson Westmoreland and Susan Randall (Jackson) Redding.
Redding, Robert Jordan was born on December 28, 1836 in Monroe County, Georgia, United States. Son of Anderson Westmoreland and Susan Randall (Jackson) Redding.
Educated in private schools, and Dahlonega (Georgia) Academy and Brownwood Institute, Louisiana Grange, Georgia.
Reared on farm; practiced law, 1857-1859. Judge inferior court, Schley Company, Georgia, 1860-1861. Engaged in farming, 1859-1876.
Served captain 46th Georgia Infantry, C.S.A., 1862-1865, wounded at Kenesaw Mountain, 1864.
Assistant commissioner of agriculture of Georgia, 1875-1889. Director Georgia Agricultural Experiment Station, 1889-1906.
General superintendent Georgia Building and exhibits, Jamestown Exposition, 1907. Democrat and Single Taxer.
Member Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Married Mary East. Bivins, May 19, 1858. Married second, Sarah East. Worrill, April. Married 3d, Sarah Elizabeth Redding, October 12, 1887.