American business executive in Boston
Eben Dyer Jordan Sr.
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Born
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1822-10-13
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October 13, 1822
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Died
| November 15, 1895
(1895-11-15)
(aged 73)
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Occupation
| Businessman
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Known for
| Co-founder of
Jordan Marsh
and
The Boston Globe
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Spouse
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Julia M. Clark
(after
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Children
| 5
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Parent(s)
| Benjamin Jordan
Lydia Wright Jordan
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Eben Dyer Jordan Sr.
(October 13, 1822 ? November 15, 1895) was an American business executive, best remembered as the co-founder of the
department store
chain
Jordan, Marsh & Co.
with
Benjamin L. Marsh
in 1841.
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Early life
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Jordan was born in
Danville, Maine
, on October 13, 1822.
[2]
He was a son of Benjamin and Lydia (
nee
Wright) Jordan and, through his father, was directly descended from the Rev. Robert Jordan, a clergyman of the
Church of England
who came to America and settled in what is now the state of Maine in about the year 1640.
[1]
After his father died young, leaving his mother in charge of several children, Jordan was sent to live with a neighbor on their farm where he learned to farm, saving up enough money to leave
Portland
and move to Boston at age fourteen.
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Career
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Jordan clerked for two years in the dry goods store of William P. Tenney & Co. before working for another merchant named Pratt. At age nineteen, one of Boston's leading merchants, Joshua Stetson, "appreciated his ability, and offered to assist him in starting business on his own account."
[1]
At twenty-five he sold his thriving store and went to work for J. M. Beebe, who taught him "not only a practical knowledge of the principles, methods, and in the management of a great business enterprise, but of the system which Mr. Beebe had perfected only after twenty-five years of close and assiduous labor and study."
[1]
In addition to co-founding the
department store
chain
Jordan Marsh
with
Benjamin L. Marsh
in 1841, Jordan led a group of businessmen in founding
The Boston Globe
in 1872.
[3]
[4]
Personal life
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On January 13, 1847, he married Julia M. Clark (1825?1897), a daughter of James and Elizabeth (nee Raymond) Clark.
[2]
They had five children:
[1]
- Walter Jordan (1848?1854), who died young.
[1]
- James Clark Jordan (1850?1910), who married Helen L. Stevens and Jeannette Amanda Stiles;
[6]
he developed
Jordan Park
in
San Francisco
.
[7]
[8]
- Julia Maria Jordan (b. 1852), who married Herbert Dumaresq in 1873; he was a cotton manufacturer and who later became a partner in Jordan, Marsh & Company.
[9]
- Eben Dyer Jordan Jr. (1857?1916), who married May Sheppard (1861?1920), a daughter of Joseph Buzby Sheppard, in 1883.
[10]
- Alice Madeline Jordan (1863?1935), who married the Rev. Arthur Wellesley Foster in 1885; as a wedding present Jordan gifted them
Brockhampton Court
, near
Fownhope
in
Herefordshire
,
England
.
[11]
Jordan died on November 15, 1895, at his residence on
Beacon Street
in Boston.
[1]
[12]
The Eben Jordan House is located on 46 Beacon Street in
Beacon Hill, Boston
.
[13]
In 2000, a petition to grant landmark status to the interior was submitted to the
Boston Landmarks Commission
; as of 2022, the request is still under study.
[14]
His daughter Alice Foster built
All Saints' Church, Brockhampton
as a memorial to her parents; completed in 1902, it was the work of the Arts & Crafts pioneer
W. R. Lethaby
.
Descendants
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Through his son Eben Jr., he was a grandfather of Robert Jordan (1884?1932) and Dorothy Jordan (d. 1976),
[15]
who married Monroe Douglas Robinson (1887?1944),
[16]
a son of
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
and
Douglas Robinson Jr.
and grandson of
Douglas Robinson Sr.
and
Theodore Roosevelt Sr.
Robinson was a nephew of
U.S. President
Theodore Roosevelt
and a first cousin of
First Lady
Eleanor Roosevelt
.
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References
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"Eben D. Jordan Dead. Senior Member of the Firm of Jordan, Marsh & Co., of Boston. Millionaire, Once A Penniless Boy. Architect of His Own Fortune. Ranked Among Public-Spirited Citizens and Representative Men"
(PDF)
.
New York Times
. November 16, 1895
. Retrieved
2015-07-29
.
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a
b
Rand, John Clark, ed. (1890).
"Jordan, Eben Dyer"
.
One of a Thousand
. Boston, MA: First National Publishing Company. pp. 346?347.
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"History of the Boston Globe"
.
northeastern.edu
. Retrieved
March 7,
2021
.
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The Boston Daily Globe (October 14, 1896),
Memorial to Eben D. Jordan. Employes of the House He Founded Join in Honoring the Famous Boston Merchant.
, Boston, MA: The Boston Globe., p. 5
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Boston Landmarks Commission (May 17, 2024).
"EBEN D. JORDAN JR. HOUSE"
(PDF)
. Office of Historic Preservation City of Boston. p. 19.
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of 1870, Harvard College (1780-) Class (1905).
Secretary's Report: no. VIII
. Riverside Press. p. 59
. Retrieved
22 April
2021
.
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link
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Anderson, Ted (June 11, 2020).
"Inside the most expensive listing in San Francisco's ritzy Jordan Park"
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San Francisco Business Times
. Retrieved
22 April
2021
.
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Kastler, Deanna L. (1993).
"Laurel Heights: Unfinished History"
.
FoundSF
. The Argonaut, Vol. 3, No. 1, Winter 1993
. Retrieved
22 April
2021
.
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Times, Special to The New York (24 March 1955).
"HERBERT DUMARESQ, 104; Retired Partner in Jordan Marsh of Boston Dies"
.
The New York Times
. Retrieved
22 April
2021
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Herringshaw's American Blue-book of Biography: Prominent Americans of ...
American Publishers' Association. 1915. p. 412
. Retrieved
22 April
2021
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"Arthur Wellesley Foster with the hounds outside Brockhampton Court"
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herefordshirehistory.org.uk
. Herefordshire History. 6 June 2018
. Retrieved
22 April
2021
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"WILL OF THE LATE EBEN D. JORDAN; A Valuable Estate Given to the Merchant's Widow and Children"
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The New York Times
. 20 November 1895
. Retrieved
22 April
2021
.
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"166 Marlborough"
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backbayhouses.org
. Back Bay Houses. 27 July 2013
. Retrieved
22 April
2021
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"List of all submitted petitions and status"
. The City of Boston
. Retrieved
23 May
2022
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"Robinson, Dorothy (Jordan), d. 1976. 3 letters; [1927] & [n.d.]., 1927 | HOLLIS for"
.
hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu
.
Harvard Library
. Retrieved
22 April
2021
.
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"MONROE ROBINSON, WAR FINANCE AIDE; Head of Office Here, Cousin ot President's Wife, Is Dead-Good-Will Ambassador"
.
The New York Times
. 9 December 1944
. Retrieved
22 April
2021
.
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Downes, Stephen (2016).
The Szymanowski Companion
. Routledge. p. 180.
ISBN
9781317014447
. Retrieved
28 June
2018
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