<p style="text-align:center"><strong>WILLIAM HENRY JORDAN</strong></p><p style="text-align:center"><strong>No. 1881 · Class of 1860</strong></p><p style="text-align:center"><strong>Died April 13, 1909, at Portland, Oregon, aged 72 years.</strong></p><p>Colonel William Henry Jordan, U.S.A., retired, was born in Piqua, Ohio, June 22, 1837. He was appointed to West Point in 1855 and graduated in 1860. He was assigned to the Second United States Infantry in 1860 and served in Minnesota. His regiment was soon after transferred to the East to take part in the Civil War, and formed part of the Army of the Potomac under General McClellan. Colonel Jordan was then a Second Lieutenant, and while rescuing a comrade was seriously wounded in the knee, from which he never fully recovered. For this meritorious service he was given the brevet of Captain in June 1862. He had already been promoted to First Lieutenant and later was made Captain of the Ninth Infantry. When he was able to resume his command he was stationed at Fort Canby, Wash. While on duty there he met and married Miss Mary Ann Adair, fourth daughter of General John Adair, Collector for the port of Astoria.</p><p>He was promoted to Major of the Third Infantry May 19, 1881, then to Lieutenant-Colonel of the Nineteenth Infantry April 9, 1886, and then to Colonel of the same regiment November 1, 1891. He was retired from active service March 23, 1892, at his own request.</p><p>While he was in the Ninth Infantry he was on the Yellowstone Indian expedition under General David M. Stanley and during the intense Indian war in which occurred the Custer massacre, he was serving with Generals Crook and McKenzie and others. As Major of the Third Infantry he built and commanded Fort Missoula, Montana. He also built Fort Robinson, in Nebraska, the center of most of the Indian troubles, and on one of the largest Indian reservations.</p><p>Colonel Jordan was a most conservative and painstaking officer and an excellent drill master and tactician. He is survived by his wife and the following sons and daughters: Mrs. H. F. Kendall, wife of Major H. F. Kendall, U.S.A., retired, of Portland; Miss Julia Jordan, also of Portland; Captain H. W. Jordan, Twelfth United States Infantry, stationed at Governor's Island, New York; Samuel D. Jordan, residing at Olympia, Wash.; Mrs. C. D. Lewis, of Seattle, and David J. Jordan, of Portland.</p><p>Not only during the military life of Colonel Jordan was he esteemed and honored by his friends and associates, but also as a citizen in private life.�From a Portland, Ore., paper.</p><p style="text-align:center"><a href="https://usmalibrary.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/aogreunion/id/9201">Annual Report, June 10, 1909, pp. 162�167 · U.S. Military Academy Library</a></p>