Nelson W. Jordan family papers, circa 1864-2003

Collection Summary

Title	Nelson W. Jordan family papers, circa 1864-2003
Span Dates	circa 1864-2003
Bulk Dates	(bulk 1881-1949)
ID No.	MSS86086
Creator	Jordan, Nelson W., 1842-1922
Extent	1,100 items
Extent	16 containers plus 8 oversize
Extent	6.4 linear feet
Language	Collection material in English
Location	Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Finding Aid Permalink	Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms017008
LCCN Permalink	LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm2016086086
Summary	Former slave, soldier, and clergyman. Photographs, correspondence, personal and family Bibles, family trees and other genealogical information, scrapbooks, diaries, speeches and writings, sermons, notebooks, school work, school publications, diplomas, posters, and printed matter, documenting Jordan family members and in-laws in Virgina and New Jersey in the late nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries.