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Jordan Jackson Rollins

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Jordan Jackson Rollins

Birth
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, USA
Death
25 Feb 1912 (aged 42)
Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA
Burial
Somersworth, Strafford County, New Hampshire, USA Add to Map
Plot
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Jordan {Age 7 months}
is recorded on the 1870 census
at Portland, Cumberland, Maine
dwelling in the household of his parents.

Occupation - Lawyer.

Jordan {Age 40; Single}
is recorded on the 1910 census
at Manhattan, New York, New York.

BIOGRAPHY - George Thomas LITTLE:
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Jordan Jackson Rollins, in his boyhood, attended the public schools of Portland
and was prepared for a collegiate career.
At the age of nineteen he was matriculated
at Dartmouth College and for four years pursued its regular course, being graduated with the baccalaureate degree in 1892.
The next year was spent in the Law School
of Harvard University, where he received an admirable grounding in the principles of the profession which he had elected to pursue.
Then he left college and entered the law
office of the Honorable Daniel G. Rollins,
one of the foremost lawyers of New York city, and there completed his studies preparatory
to admission to the bar.
in November 1894 he was admitted to practice at the bar of the State of New York.
In 1897 he began his independent practice, when he established the firm of Rollins & Rollins, his partner therein being his brother, Philip Ashton Rollins.
He has practiced his profession in New York with steadily increasing success.
He had not held nor sought political preferment, nor been especially concerned in politics beyond exercising the privileges and performing the duties of a private citizen.
He has become interested in various business enterprises with which he has professionally been brought into contact, and is connected with, among others, the Ninth National Bank and the Windsor Trust Company of New York city, and with the United Indurate Fibre Company of New Jersey.
He was a member of a number of leading social and professional organizations, among which may be mentioned the Union League Club, the University Club, the Harvard Club, the New York Athletic Club, the Bar Association, and the Law Institute of New York.
Jordan {Age 7 months}
is recorded on the 1870 census
at Portland, Cumberland, Maine
dwelling in the household of his parents.

Occupation - Lawyer.

Jordan {Age 40; Single}
is recorded on the 1910 census
at Manhattan, New York, New York.

BIOGRAPHY - George Thomas LITTLE:
*******************************
Jordan Jackson Rollins, in his boyhood, attended the public schools of Portland
and was prepared for a collegiate career.
At the age of nineteen he was matriculated
at Dartmouth College and for four years pursued its regular course, being graduated with the baccalaureate degree in 1892.
The next year was spent in the Law School
of Harvard University, where he received an admirable grounding in the principles of the profession which he had elected to pursue.
Then he left college and entered the law
office of the Honorable Daniel G. Rollins,
one of the foremost lawyers of New York city, and there completed his studies preparatory
to admission to the bar.
in November 1894 he was admitted to practice at the bar of the State of New York.
In 1897 he began his independent practice, when he established the firm of Rollins & Rollins, his partner therein being his brother, Philip Ashton Rollins.
He has practiced his profession in New York with steadily increasing success.
He had not held nor sought political preferment, nor been especially concerned in politics beyond exercising the privileges and performing the duties of a private citizen.
He has become interested in various business enterprises with which he has professionally been brought into contact, and is connected with, among others, the Ninth National Bank and the Windsor Trust Company of New York city, and with the United Indurate Fibre Company of New Jersey.
He was a member of a number of leading social and professional organizations, among which may be mentioned the Union League Club, the University Club, the Harvard Club, the New York Athletic Club, the Bar Association, and the Law Institute of New York.


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