| Object ID |
2006.0008.116 |
| Accession# |
2006.0008 |
| Object Name |
Description, Object |
| Description |
A typed description of the history of the Jordan family and the Lincoln collage, New York Times newspaper of Lincoln's assassination, and the Lincoln engraving in the round frame which were collected and donated by the Jordan family. See #2006.0008.169, 2006.0008.217, and 2006.0008.218 in the Related Items tab. |
| Date |
1970s |
| Search Terms |
G.A.R. Hall
Grand Army of the Republic
Civil War
Abraham Lincoln |
| Collection |
Robert L. Hunker G.A.R. Collection |
| People |
Hunker, Robert L.
Jordan, Dorothy
Jordan, Weldon G.
Lincoln, Abraham |
| Subjects |
Collectors
Families |
| Catalog date |
03/23/2007 |
| Catalog type |
History |
| Collector |
Robert L. Hunker |
| Count |
1 |
| Credit line |
Robert L. Hunker |
| Dimension notes |
Gesso on wood gilt frame measures 8" x 11" x 0.75" |
| Dimensions |
W-5 L-8.5 inches |
| Home Location |
G.A.R. Hall Museum |
| Material |
Paper |
| Notes |
The Jordan family came to Sandusky from Chattanooga about the time of the Civil War; there is an earlier history of the family in Virginia at a place called "Jordan's Trace."
My husband's paternal grandfather married a German immigrant girl and owned a shipchandlers business in Sandusky. My husband's father, John Arthur Jordan, was the youngest of a family of boys. Some of his older brothers were railroad men, and one was a dentist, or doctor, and developed a patent medicine called "SarKava."
My father-in-law had been manager of a hotel on Johnson's Island in Sandusky Bay (where the Confederate Cemetery is located) at a time when the island was the site of a resort and amusement park similar to Cedar Point. Later he also worked for the railroad; he died in 1962 just a few months short of his 100th birthday.
My husband's maternal grandfather, John Gaa, came to Sandusky from Germany, also about the time of the Civil War. He was an engineer on lake freighters, later was the head of the water pumping station at Sandusky. He had three daughters, the youngest of whom was my mother-in-law.
My husband was the only grandson of both families. The Lincoln mementos, which have been saved rather casually, could have come from either side of the family.
Dorothy Jordan (signed)
Mrs. Weldon G. Jordan
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| Place of Origin |
Peninsula, Ohio |
| Provenance |
From the Dorothy Jordan collection. This was received per an unsolicited letter to Robert L. Hunker, date unknown. Robert L. Hunker remembers the mid to late 1970s. |
| Recfrom |
Hunker G.A.R. Collection |
| Site |
G.A.R. Hall Museum |
| Site # |
31 |
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