When David J JORDAN was born on 1 June 1842, in North Carolina, United States, his father, James C. Jordan, was 68 and his mother, Martha Ballard, was 63.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
The first state fair in North Carolina was held in Raleigh and was put on by the North Carolina State Agricultural Society in 1853. The fair has been continuous except for during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and WWII.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English, German, French (mainly Alsace and Haute-Savoie), Polish, Czech, and Slovenian; Spanish and Hungarian (Jordán): from the Christian personal name or nickname Jordan. This is taken from the name of the river Jordan (Hebrew Yarden, a derivative of yarad ‘to go down’, i.e. to the Dead Sea). At the time of the Crusades it was a common practice for crusaders and pilgrims to bring back flasks of water from the river in which John the Baptist had baptized people, including Christ himself, and to use it in the christening of their own children. As a result Jordan became quite a common personal name.
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