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Note: N12 From Gainsville, New York
Third woman to attend Cornell University. Met Edward Junius Edwards there. Her brother, David Starr Jordan, was the first president of Stanford University.
1920 Census Mary J Edwards (65), widow, is living in Minneapolis, MN, as a roomer in the home of Emma E Anderson (55). Mary Edwards has no occupation. There are two other roomers in the home.
Aug 30 1920 - Minneapolis Tribune article gives 78 Willow Street as the address of Mary J Edwards, announcing the visit of her daughter Mary Edwards of Washington, D.C.
1930-Census living with her daughter Marjorie Blake in Whittier CA, and sometimes with her brother David Starr Jordan (age 79) in Palo Alto, CA with a nurse/servant
1940 Census - Flora Bailey (59), b. Illinois, divorced, is living in Montgomery, Maryland, as a lodger in the home of John Stanley Hodges (43). At the top of the entry for this home is written "The following persons were enumerated in Falkland Manor Guest Home"
John Stanley Hodges (43) automobile salesman
Barbara Hodges (30), b. minnesota, teacher in social work school; lived in Washakie, NY in 1935 (this was Mary Jordan’s granddaughter)
Charles Edward Geist (41)
Lettie Hughes Langdon (52)
Edward Langdon (15)
Edward Langdon Sr (54)
Richard Bright (74)
Mary Edward (85) b. New York (this was Mary Jordan Edwards) widowed
Flora Bailey (59) b. Illinois, lived in Minneapolis 1935, as did Mary Edwards (Flora was Mary Jordan’s daughter and mother of Barbara Hodges.)
"Before the Civil War, the general area that would become Takoma Park was increasingly developed as small farms and country estates. One of the most notable of these was the Silver Spring farm of Francis Preston Blair, a member of the “Kitchen Cabinet” of President Andrew Jackson. He came to Washington from Kentucky in 1830 as editor of the Globe, a pro-Jackson newspaper. Blair made his home at 1651 Pennsylvania Avenue across from the White House, and in 1835 acquired a large country property located near the Silver Spring. With later additions, this was known as Falkland Manor. It included part of the Girles Portion and other originally Carroll lands, extending into what is today Takoma Park, MD, and Takoma, DC. "
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WWI draft registration:
John Stanley Hodges, age 21
Living at 301 Hattow, Portsmouth, VA with J. F. Hodges
employed by Jesseu (sp?) Art Company, 50 Haddington Bld Norfolk, VA
“Mary Maty, a very intelligent and handsome girl three
years younger than I, was the third woman to enter
Cornell University. There she became engaged to
Edward Junius Edwards, a former fellow student at
Lombard University, where I taught for a year
after graduating from college. Minneapolis has long
been her home. For some years before his death in
1915, her husband interested himself in genealogy,
and during the process of working out his children's
ancestry, half of which was also mine, he brought to
light many unknown or forgotten details of family
origin and connections. Mrs. Edwards is the mother
of six, Arthur (Stanford, 1900), Paul, Junius, Flora
(Mrs. Bailey), Marjorie (Mrs. Blake), and Mary
Edwards. “
“Leaving At the end of the year the trustees, being short of
Lombard money and none too appreciative, left me no ac-
ceptable alternative save to resign — which I did
not unwillingly. They were, however, taken aback
by the fact that nearly all the advanced students
then expressed their intention of going to Cornell.
Among those who actually did go were Edward
Junius Edwards, entomologist, whom Mary after-
ward married, and Belle Sherman, who graduated
at Cornell and remained in Ithaca for forty years as
science teacher in the high school. “
(from “The Days of a Man” by David Starr Jordan)
(note: the date of Edward Junius Edwards’ death is wrong here. He died in 1911)
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Mary Jordan Edwards was active in the local DAR (regent of the Colonial Chapter, and representative of the chapter on the national level) and in various capacities in the Church of the Redeemer.
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BAILEY-EDWARDS
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Edwards announce the engagment of their daughter, Flora, to Seavey Moor Bailey.
(from the Minneapolis Tribune Oct 29, 1905)
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Maryland State Archives death index confirms Mary Jordan Edwards died on 14 Oct 1942 in Montgomery County, Maryland, and not in Missouri as is recorded in the Find-a-Grave memorial.
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Handwritten records from the Lakewood Cemetery includes an internment in the Edwards plots for Mary Jordan Stevens died Oct 14 1942. Did she remarry someone named Stevens? Or was that “Stevens” a mistake that should have been “Edwards”?
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MARY JORDAN EDWARDS
Birth:
1854
Death:
Oct. 14, 1942
Missouri, USA
Family links:
Parents:
Huldah Lake Hawley Jordan (1812 - 1898)
Spouse:
Edward Junius Edwards (1854 - 1911)*
Sibling:
Lucia Jordan Beadle (1836 - 1888)*
Mary Jordan Edwards (1854 - 1942)
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Lakewood Cemetery
Minneapolis
Hennepin County
Minnesota, USA
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Created by: Karen Frederickson
Record added: Sep 01, 2010
Find A Grave Memorial# 57998872
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