William Worthington Jordan
Hunter, trader, and writer in Southern Africa.
About William Worthington Jordan
Lived 1849 – 1886 (aged 36–37). William Worthington Jordan was a South African journalist, hunter, explorer and politician.
William Worthington Jordan (1849–1886) was a hunter, trader, and writer in Southern Africa.
Born at Wynberg in the Cape Colony, Jordan was of mixed race. He became a trader and hunter in what is now Botswana and Namibia. In 1880 he established a trading post in southern Angola.
Having bought a large area of land from the Ovambo people, Jordan donated some of it to Boer settlers who, in 1885, established the short-lived republic of Upingtonia. This did not long survive his death in 1886.
Jordan's Journal of the Trek Boers to Mossamedes appeared in the Cape Quarterly Review in 1881. In 1883, his From Damaraland to the Nhemba Country: Extract from the Diary of W. W. Jordan appeared in the same journal.
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Who was William Worthington Jordan?
hunter, trader, and writer in Southern Africa.
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William Worthington Jordan was born in 1849 in Wynberg.
When did William Worthington Jordan die?
William Worthington Jordan died in 1886.
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William Worthington Jordan was a journalist, hunter, explorer and politician.
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William Worthington Jordan was South African.
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