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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

Allen JORDAN, retired; P. O. Plainfield; the above gentleman was born in Columbia Co., N. Y., 
Feb. 3, 1798. He married Miss Jane P. COOK Dec. 6, 1837 she was born in New York March 6, 1813; 
they had eight children, seven living - William A., Harriet, Richard C., Edward, Allen, Jr., 
John and Ambrose L He remained a resident of New York until 1847, during which time he read 
law, and practiced as an attorney for twenty-five years in the city of Hudson, N. Y., of 
which city he was Mayor for the year 1839; in 1847, he came to Plainfield, IL, and remained 
for two years, when he went to Kendall Co. and engaged in farming, and, in 1866, he again 
came to this place, and has lived here since.