CHARLES C. JORDAN owns and operates a good farm situated on Survey No. 13,938, in Lynn Township, Hardin County.  As a worthy and representative old settler, he has long been identified with the upbuilding of this county, and no one is more respected in this locality than he.  A native of Germany, he was born in the village of Weichersbach, Hesse-Cassel, Oct. 15, 1840, and is a second child born to his parents, John and Catherine (Wertman) Jordan  They were also born in the Fatherland, and there the father died in December, 1840.
     Our subject attended the village school of his birthplace until a lad of twelve years, when he came to America in company with his mother and step-father.  They landed at Baltimore, from which city they made their way to Bakersville, Somerset County, Pa., where George Belz, his step-father, farmed until the spring of 1864.  That year they moved to Hardin County, this state, where Mr. Belz died in the fall of the same year.
     While in the Keystone State, our subject enlisted in Company B, Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania Infantry, and the first engagement in which he fought as a Union soldier occurred at Cedar Mountain.  The second battle occurred at Antietam, where he was wounded, being confined in the hospital for three months.  When sufficiently recovered he rejoined his regiment at Harper's Ferry, serving his country faithfully and well until July 20, 1864, when he was mustered out at Chattanooga, Tenn.  His term of service had expired June 21, of that year, but he was retained until after the capture of the rebel forces on Kenesaw Mountain.
     On being mustered out Mr. Jordan came to Hardin County, where he was married, Feb. 25, 1866, to Catherine Baker, daughter of John and Sophia (Weisgerber) Baker.  Their union has resulted in the birth of eight sons and daughters.  Rebecca is now the wife of Franklin Kahler, a farmer of Cessna Township, this county; Sophia married Ora Maddox, a resident of Kenton; and the others are Elizabeth, Mary, Margaret, William Carol and Caroline.
     On his arrival in this county from the seat of war our subject farmed on rented land for two years in Pleasant Township.  He subsequently worked for other people for eighteen months, or until he had accumulated a sufficient sum of money to enable him to buy a small tract of land.  Accordingly, in October, 1868, he bought fifty-nine acres, included in his present farm, on which he first erected a log cabin and then began the work of improvement.  He added to his possessions from time to time, until now he has one hundred and five broad acres.  The land is well improved, and by a proper rotation of crops is made to yield an abundant harvest each year.
     Mr. Jordan has been the incumbent of many positions of trust, among them being the office of Township Trustee, Justice of the Peace and Scool Director.  He is a Democrat in politics, and in religious matters is actively identified with the Evangelical Church.