Eben Dyer Jordan, Sr. was the co-founder of the department store

Department store

A department store is a retail establishment which satisfies a wide range of the consumer's personal and residential durable goods product needs; and at the same time offering the consumer a choice of multiple merchandise lines, at variable price points, in all product categories...

 chain Jordan Marsh

Jordan Marsh

Jordan Marsh & Company was a department store in Boston, Massachusetts, which grew to be a major regional chain in the New England area of the United States. In 1996, the last of the Jordan Marsh stores were converted to Macy's. The store was formerly part of Allied Stores and then Federated...

 with Benjamin L. Marsh in 1841.

Early life

Jordan was born in Danville, Maine to Benjamin and Lydia (Wright) Jordan on October 13, 1822.

Family life

He married Julia M. Clark on January 13, 1847, they had five children Walter Jordan, James Clark Jordan, Julia Maria Jordan, Alice Jordan, and Eben Dyer Jordan, Jr. (1857-1916).