This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jordan Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BUB.2ACI/6193 Message Board Post: JORDAN, ALONZO [LON] pg 335 [1910] "Alonzo Jordan bears the distinction of being the oldest man now living who was born in Cuba. He was born in 1825, and is still living on the same farm and a few yards distant from the house where he was born. He is now afflicted with paralysis and has to keep to the house. It will be hard for people who have only known him of recent years to recognize "Lon Jordan" as he has been so familiarly called, in the accompanying picture, evidently taken not long after his rafting days on the Allegheny. Mr. Jordan has done his full share in clearing off the forests which covered our town. He was also a hunter of much renown in these parts." [Minard, John Stearns, _Civic History and Illustrated Progress of Cuba, Allegany Co., N.Y., 1822-1910, reprint, Windmill Publications, Inc.