CLASS OF 1859
Dr. Charles Jordan died June 6 at his home in Wakefield, Mass., of old age.
The son of Richworth and Mary (Sawyer) Jordan, he was born in Saco, Maine, October 17, 1828. His early education was obtained in the district school and academy of his native town. He was employed three years in drug stores in Saco and Boston, and then studied medicine with Dr. Charles G. Green of Boston, attending lectures at Bowdoin and Dartmouth.
Immediately after graduation in the fall of 1858 he began practice in South Reading (now Wakefield), Mass., which place remained his home until the day of his death. He remained in active practice up to 1917, having become the leading physician in a large circuit of country practice and one of the foremost citizens of the town.
Dr. Jordan was a member and sometime president of the Middlesex East District Medical Society, a Mason, and at various times a member of the school committee of Wakefield.
In April, 1859, he was married to Mary P. Cole of Saco, who died in 1880; a second marriage in 1882 was to Caroline A. Cowdrey. who died in 1912. His only son by the first marriage, Winfield C. Jordan of Wakefield, survives him. Charles Jordan, 2d, Dartmouth 1911, is a grandson.
