- REV. H. S. JORDAN, Pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church;
was born at Concord,
- Morgan Co., Ill., April 9, 1854; came to Wisconsin May 1,
1878, and located at Beloit; from Concord he moved with his father
to Springfield, Ill..; from Springfield to Quincy; thence to
Decatur, and to De Witt, where he commenced going to school;
for De Witt he moved to Arcadia, Ill. and attended school; then
moved to Bethel, Ill., and to Moroa, Ill., and went to farming;
moved to Limerick, Ill., thence to Princeton, where, from the
fall of 1873, he taught his first school until the spring of
1875. Mr. JORDAN was converted and joined the church in February,
1875, and April 18, 1875, he preached his first sermon, at Somonauk,
Ill., and the same month was appointed Pastor in charge of Miller's
Chapel, near Peru; Sept. 3, went to Adrian College, Mich., to
finish his theological and literary studies, which he began under
his father, and remained there until April 25, 1878, supplying
the pulpits of the Congregational and Methodist Episcopal Churches;
on the 15th of September, he was ordained as an Elder of the
Methodist Episcopal Church by the Northern Illinois Conference,
convened at Lenox, Ill. From Adrian he came to Beloit and accepted
the charge he now has. Mr. JORDAN is a great-grandson to Rev.
James SIMMS, the first Methodist preacher in Illinois, and a
grandson of Rev. John L. KIRKPATRICK, who was a Captain in the
regular army during the Black Hawk war.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 754.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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