Eben Dyer Jordan

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. He was a son of Benjamin and Lydia (née 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 present-day Maine in or around 1640.

Personal life Jordan's son, Eben D. Jordan Jr. (1857-1916), a major Boston arts philanthropist who played an influential role in the establishment of the New England Conservatory and the Boston Opera Company

On January 13, 1847, he married Julia M. Clark (1825–1897), a daughter of James and Elizabeth (née Raymond) Clark. he developed Jordan Park in San Francisco. 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. Eben Dyer Jordan Jr. (1857–1916), who married May Sheppard (1861–1920), a daughter of Joseph Buzby Sheppard, in 1883. 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.

Death Jordan died on November 15, 1895, at his residence on Beacon Street in Boston. The Eben Jordan House is located on 46 Beacon Street in Beacon Hill, Boston. 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. 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 Through his son Eben Jr., he was a grandfather of Robert Jordan (1884–1932) and Dorothy Jordan (d. 1976), who married Monroe Douglas Robinson (1887–1944), 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.