Owned a steamship and owned the early day powder mills in Santa Cruz.
Santa Cruz Weekly Sentinel, Sat, Feb. 2, 1867, p.2. "ALBION P. JORDAN. The remains of this highly esteemed citizen have been brought borne from Maine, and on Saturday last were deposited in our cemetery. A few words in regard to him may not be unacceptable to his many friends. He was born in Brunswick, Me., on the 17th of October, 1826, being at the time of his death forty years of age. In 1846 he left his home, in Brunswick, for Boston, where he thoroughly qualified himself as engineer and machinist. His last work, previous to leaving for California, in 1849, was to fix the light upon Minot's Ledge Lighthouse, in Boston Bay. Arriving in California, he acted for a time as engineer on the Sacramento river. As one of the pioneers in the lime business, in connection with Mr. Isaac Davis, he first opened a kiln on the eastern side o the Santa Cruz Range, not far from Lexington, packing the lime into San Jose on mules, and receiving twelve dollars per barrel. In 1853 he came to Santa Cruz, and, still in connection with Mr. Davis, purchased the ranch where the lime kilns now stand (subsequently adding other large tracts), and began the business of burning and shipping lime, which has since grown to such immense proportions. In 1856 he made a visit to his old home in the East, and to that visit he used to ascribe the inception of the disease that terminated his life. His health failing, he retired from business in the spring of 1865, and soon after went East with his family, in view to the improvement of his health, and died on the 14th of November last, at the residence of his brother, Capt. Corn [Coan] Jordan. ... His death, though not unexpected, in widely lamented."
Santa Cruz Weekly Sentinel, Sat, Feb. 2, 1867, p.2. "ALBION P. JORDAN. The remains of this highly esteemed citizen have been brought borne from Maine, and on Saturday last were deposited in our cemetery. A few words in regard to him may not be unacceptable to his many friends. He was born in Brunswick, Me., on the 17th of October, 1826, being at the time of his death forty years of age. In 1846 he left his home, in Brunswick, for Boston, where he thoroughly qualified himself as engineer and machinist. His last work, previous to leaving for California, in 1849, was to fix the light upon Minot's Ledge Lighthouse, in Boston Bay. Arriving in California, he acted for a time as engineer on the Sacramento river. As one of the pioneers in the lime business, in connection with Mr. Isaac Davis, he first opened a kiln on the eastern side o the Santa Cruz Range, not far from Lexington, packing the lime into San Jose on mules, and receiving twelve dollars per barrel. In 1853 he came to Santa Cruz, and, still in connection with Mr. Davis, purchased the ranch where the lime kilns now stand (subsequently adding other large tracts), and began the business of burning and shipping lime, which has since grown to such immense proportions. In 1856 he made a visit to his old home in the East, and to that visit he used to ascribe the inception of the disease that terminated his life. His health failing, he retired from business in the spring of 1865, and soon after went East with his family, in view to the improvement of his health, and died on the 14th of November last, at the residence of his brother, Capt. Corn [Coan] Jordan. ... His death, though not unexpected, in widely lamented."
Owned a steamship and owned the early day powder mills in Santa Cruz.
Santa Cruz Weekly Sentinel, Sat, Feb. 2, 1867, p.2. "ALBION P. JORDAN. The remains of this highly esteemed citizen have been brought borne from Maine, and on Saturday last were deposited in our cemetery. A few words in regard to him may not be unacceptable to his many friends. He was born in Brunswick, Me., on the 17th of October, 1826, being at the time of his death forty years of age. In 1846 he left his home, in Brunswick, for Boston, where he thoroughly qualified himself as engineer and machinist. His last work, previous to leaving for California, in 1849, was to fix the light upon Minot's Ledge Lighthouse, in Boston Bay. Arriving in California, he acted for a time as engineer on the Sacramento river. As one of the pioneers in the lime business, in connection with Mr. Isaac Davis, he first opened a kiln on the eastern side o the Santa Cruz Range, not far from Lexington, packing the lime into San Jose on mules, and receiving twelve dollars per barrel. In 1853 he came to Santa Cruz, and, still in connection with Mr. Davis, purchased the ranch where the lime kilns now stand (subsequently adding other large tracts), and began the business of burning and shipping lime, which has since grown to such immense proportions. In 1856 he made a visit to his old home in the East, and to that visit he used to ascribe the inception of the disease that terminated his life. His health failing, he retired from business in the spring of 1865, and soon after went East with his family, in view to the improvement of his health, and died on the 14th of November last, at the residence of his brother, Capt. Corn [Coan] Jordan. ... His death, though not unexpected, in widely lamented."
Santa Cruz Weekly Sentinel, Sat, Feb. 2, 1867, p.2. "ALBION P. JORDAN. The remains of this highly esteemed citizen have been brought borne from Maine, and on Saturday last were deposited in our cemetery. A few words in regard to him may not be unacceptable to his many friends. He was born in Brunswick, Me., on the 17th of October, 1826, being at the time of his death forty years of age. In 1846 he left his home, in Brunswick, for Boston, where he thoroughly qualified himself as engineer and machinist. His last work, previous to leaving for California, in 1849, was to fix the light upon Minot's Ledge Lighthouse, in Boston Bay. Arriving in California, he acted for a time as engineer on the Sacramento river. As one of the pioneers in the lime business, in connection with Mr. Isaac Davis, he first opened a kiln on the eastern side o the Santa Cruz Range, not far from Lexington, packing the lime into San Jose on mules, and receiving twelve dollars per barrel. In 1853 he came to Santa Cruz, and, still in connection with Mr. Davis, purchased the ranch where the lime kilns now stand (subsequently adding other large tracts), and began the business of burning and shipping lime, which has since grown to such immense proportions. In 1856 he made a visit to his old home in the East, and to that visit he used to ascribe the inception of the disease that terminated his life. His health failing, he retired from business in the spring of 1865, and soon after went East with his family, in view to the improvement of his health, and died on the 14th of November last, at the residence of his brother, Capt. Corn [Coan] Jordan. ... His death, though not unexpected, in widely lamented."
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