David Starr Jordan
David Starr Jordan (January 19, 1851 – September 19, 1931) was the founding president of Stanford University, serving from 1891 to 1913. He was an ichthyologist during his research career. Prior to serving as president of Stanford University, he served as president of Indiana University from 1885 to 1891.
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David Starr Jordan

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- Name
- David Starr Jordan
- Born
- 19 January 1851
- Birthplace
- Wyoming County, New York, U.S.
- Died
- 19 September 1931
- Place of death
- Stanford, California, U.S.
- Occupation
- Ichthyologist, University President
- Nationality
- United States
- Fields
- ichthyology
- Education
- Butler University · Indiana University Bloomington · Cornell University · Indiana University School of Medicine
- Known for
- Manual of the vertebrate animals of the northern United States · Synopsis of the fishes of North America · A guide to the study of fishes · A classification of fishes: including families and genera as far as known
- Languages
- English
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David Starr Jordan (January 19, 1851 – September 19, 1931) was the founding president of Stanford University, serving from 1891 to 1913. He was an ichthyologist during his research career. Prior to serving as president of Stanford University, he served as president of Indiana University from 1885 to 1891.
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Biography
Biography
Jordan was also a strong supporter of eugenics, and his published views expressed a fear of "race-degeneration", asserting that cattle and human beings are "governed by the same laws of selection". He was an antimilitarist since he believed that war killed off the best members of the gene pool, and he initially opposed American involvement in World War I.[1]
David Starr Jordan studied at Butler University, Indiana University Bloomington and Cornell University. Masamitsu Ōshima is recorded as having studied under David Starr Jordan. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is ichthyology. Employment is recorded with Smithsonian Institution, Butler University and Indiana University Bloomington. Works named in the authority record are Manual of the vertebrate animals of the northern United States, Synopsis of the fishes of North America, A guide to the study of fishes and A classification of fishes: including families and genera as far as known.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — David Starr Jordan • Order — 1st • Title — Chancellor of Stanford University • Term Start — 1913 • Term End — 1916 • Predecessor — Office established • Successor — Ray Lyman Wilbur • Order2 — 1st • Title2 — President of Stanford University • Term Start2 — 1891 • Term End2 — 1913 • Predecessor2 — Office established • Successor2 — John C. Branner • Order3 — 7th • Title3 — President of Indiana University • Term Start3 — 1884 • Term End3 — 1891 • Predecessor3 — Lemuel Moss • Successor3 — John Merle Coulter • Born — 19 January 1851 • Birthplace — Wyoming County, New York, U.S. • Died — 19 September 1931 • Place of death — Stanford, California, U.S. • Occupation — Ichthyologist, University President • Children — 6, including Edith
Early life and education
Early life and education
Jordan was born in Gainesville, New York, and grew up on a farm in upstate New York. His parents made an unorthodox decision to educate him at a local girls' high school.[5] His middle name, Starr, does not appear in early census records, and was apparently self-selected; he had begun using it by the time that he was enrolled at Cornell. He said that it was in honour of his mother's devotion to the minister Thomas Starr King but also due to his admiration for the night sky which he expressed at a young age.[6] He was inspired by his teacher Louis Agassiz to pursue his studies in ichthyology. In the mid-19th century Agassiz was incomparably influential and trained "nearly all" of the leading naturalists in the United States. Simultaneously, according to historian Donald Yacovone, "His revulsion for African Americans and his insistence on their inherent inferiority knew no limits. The influence of [Agassiz's] damaging ideas cannot be overestimated."[7] Jordan was part of the first freshman class of undergraduates at Cornell University, where he graduated in 1872[8] with a master's degree in botany. In his autobiography, The Days of a Man, he wrote, "During the three years which followed [my entrance as a 'belated' freshman in March 1869], I completed all the requirements for a degree of Bachelor of Science, besides about two year of advanced work in Botany. Taking this last into consideration, the faculty conferred on me at graduation in June 1872, the advanced degree of Master of Science instead of the conventional Bachelor's Degree... it was afterward voted not to grant any second degree within a year after the Bachelor had been received. I was placed, quite innocently, in the position of being the only graduate of Cornell to merge two degrees into one." His master's thesis was on the topic "The Wild Flowers of Wyoming County".[9] Jordan initially taught natural history courses at several small Midwestern colleges and secondary schools, including at Indianapolis High School. In 1875, while in Indianapolis, Jordan obtained a Doctor of Medicine degree from Indiana Medical College.[10] The Indiana Medical College in Indianapolis opened in 1869, but merged out of existence in 1878.[11] Standards at the college were not particularly high. Jordan himself, reflecting on the experience noted that "I was also able to spend some time in the Medical College, from which, in the spring of 1875, I received the (scarcely earned) degree of Doctor of Medicine, though it had not at all been my intention to enter that profession."[12] The following year, in 1876, Jordan taught comparative anatomy at the college.[13] Jordan also held an honorary PhD,[14][15] awarded to him by Butler University in 1877.[16]
Career
Career
In 1879, Jordan was accepted into the natural history faculty of Indiana University Bloomington, where he served as a professor of zoology. His teaching included his version of eugenics, which "sought to prevent the decay of the Anglo-Saxon/Nordic race by limiting racial mixing and by preventing the reproduction of those he deemed unfit."[17]
Indiana University president
Indiana University president
In January 1885, Jordan began his tenure as president of Indiana University and became the nation's youngest university president at only 34 and the first Indiana University president who was not an ordained minister.[18] He improved the university's finances and public image, doubled its enrollment, and instituted an elective system; like Cornell's, it was an early application of the modern liberal arts curriculum. It was through studying blind cave fish that the Indiana zoologist David Starr Jordan rose to prominence. A scientist of great charisma, he would lead IU before being chosen in 1891 as the first president of Stanford University. By my time at IU, however, Jordan was locally best known for quipping that every time he learned the name of a student he forgot the name of a fish.[20]
Stanford University president
Stanford University president
• Illustration — Jordan as president of Stanford University in 1913 In March 1891, he was approached by Leland and Jane Stanford, who offered him the presidency of Leland Stanford Junior University, which was about to open in California. Andrew Dickson White, the co-founder and first president of Cornell University, who offered him the position, recommended Jordan to the Stanfords based on an educational philosophy fit with the Stanfords' vision of a nonsectarian co-educational school with a liberal arts curriculum. Jordan quickly accepted the offer, arrived at Stanford in June 1891, and immediately set about recruiting faculty for the university's planned September opening. Pressed for time, he drew heavily on his own acquaintances; most of the 15 founding professors came either from Cornell or Indiana University. That first year at Stanford, Jordan was instrumental in establishing the university's Hopkins Marine Station. He served Stanford as president until 1913 and then chancellor until his retirement in 1916. The university decided not to renew his three-year-term as chancellor in 1916. As the years went on, Jordan became increasingly alienated from the university. While he was chancellor, he was elected president of the National Education Association.[21] Jordan was a member in the Bohemian Club and the University Club in San Francisco.[22] Jordan served as a director of the Sierra Club from 1892 to 1903.[23] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1905.[24]
David Starr Jordan House
David Starr Jordan House
• Illustration — David Starr Jordan House in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California In 1905, he was one of the first professors to build a summer home at the northeast corner of Camino Real and 7th Avenue, on what became known as "Professors' Row" in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. He was good friends with Stanford University professor of entomology Vernon Lyman Kellogg, who also lived in Carmel.[25][26]
Racial views and support for eugenics
Racial views and support for eugenics
pre-war academics In 1899, Jordan delivered an essay at Stanford on behalf of racial segregation and racial purity.[27] In the essay, Jordan argued that "...a race of men or a herd of cattle are governed by the same laws of selection." Jordan expressed concern about "race degeneration" that would occur unless efforts were made to maintain "racial unity".
Eugenics-based argument against war
Eugenics-based argument against war
Jordan argued that peace was preferable to warfare because war removed the strongest men from the gene pool.[28][29] He said, "Future war is impossible because the nations cannot afford it."[31] As one commentator put it, "Though he found meager evidence to support his preconceptions, he still confidently asserted that 'always and everywhere, war means the reversal of natural selection. Jordan was president of the World Peace Foundation from 1910 to 1914 and president of the World Peace Conference in 1915 and initially opposed American entry into World War I although he changed his position in 1917 after he became convinced that a German victory would threaten democracy.
"The Blood of the Nation"
"The Blood of the Nation"
Soon after it was first delivered, the essay was published by the American Unitarian Association (copyright 1902) under the main title of "The Blood of the Nation" and a subtitle of "A Study of the Decay of Races Through the Survival of the Unfit." Multiple editions of that version followed over the next few years.[32] An expanded version of the essay was delivered in Philadelphia at the 200th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's birth in 1906 and printed by the American Philosophical Society. The following year, an expanded version of the original essay with an embossed cover was published by Beacon Press in Boston under the new main title "The Human Harvest" and the same subtitle.[33] This new version was dedicated to Jordan's older brother Rufus, who had volunteered to fight in the American Civil War and, according to Jordan, was part of the "'Human Harvest' of 1862." Jordan's eugenic and anti-war views may have been in part shaped by the death of his brother in 1862 from a 'camp fever,' likely typhoid, immediately after enlisting to fight in the American Civil War.[34] In 1910, the original and slimmer version of the essay was again published by the American Unitarian Association in a "less expensive form to insure the widest possible distribution."[35] In 1915, Jordan published an "extended treatise on the same subject" titled War and Breed again through the Beacon Press in Boston.[36] Here Jordan defines and begins to employ the relatively recent term "eugenics" and its opposite "dysgenics".[37]
Human Betterment Foundation
Human Betterment Foundation
After Jordan's death, the Human Betterment Foundation, a political eugenics-advocacy organization that advocated for compulsory sterilization legislation in the United States, published a newspaper advertisement claiming Jordan as one of its prominent members.[38] The Foundation published Sterilization for Human Betterment, advocating for legislation that would compel sterilization of the disabled and violent felons, allow for anyone in the public to voluntarily seek medical sterilization, and legalize the use of contraception.
Role in apparent murder of Jane Stanford
Role in apparent murder of Jane Stanford
In 1905, Jordan launched an apparent coverup of the murder of Stanford University co-founder Jane Stanford. While vacationing in Oahu, Stanford had suddenly died of strychnine poisoning according to the local coroner's jury. Jordan then sailed to Hawaii, hired a physician to investigate the case, and declared she had in fact died of heart failure, a condition whose symptoms bear no relationship to those that were actually observed.[39] Jordan's motive has been a subject of speculation. One possibility is that he was acting to protect the reputation of the university, as its finances were precarious, and a scandal might have damaged fundraising. He had written the president of Stanford's board of trustees, offered several explanations for Stanford's death, and suggested they select whichever was most suitable. Since Stanford had a difficult relationship with him and reportedly planned to remove him from his position at the university, he might have had a motive to eliminate suspicions about an unsolved crime. Jordan's version of Stanford's demise[40] was largely accepted until the appearance of several publications in 2003 arguing that she was murdered.[41]
Retirement
Retirement
In retirement, Jordan remained active, writing on ichthyology, world relations, peace, and his autobiography.
Skepticism
Skepticism
Although a proponent of eugenics, Jordan was skeptical of certain other pseudoscientific claims. He coined the term "sciosophy" to describe the "systematized ignorance" of the pseudoscientist.[49] His later work, The Higher Foolishness, inspired the philosopher Martin Gardner to write his treatise on scientific skepticism, Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science. However, Gardner noted that "the book is infuriating because although Jordan mentions the titles of dozens of crank works, from which he quotes extensively, he seldom tells you the names of the authors."
Personal life
Personal life
• Illustration — Jordan's wife, Susan Bowen Jordan, in 1879 Jordan married Susan Bowen (1845–1885), a biologist and a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, whom he met at Louis Agassiz's Penikese Island Summer School of Science, in her hometown of Peru, Massachusetts, on March 10, 1875. She died at age 39, after 10 years of marriage, following a brief illness. Bowen was six years Jordan's senior. They had three children: the educator Edith Monica (1877–1965), Harold Bowen (1882–1959), and Thora (1884–1886). Jordan later married Jessie Knight (1866–1952) in 1887. At the time of their marriage, two years after his first wife's death, Knight was 21 years old and Jordan was 36. They met while he was serving as president of Indiana University. He and his second wife had three children: Knight Starr (1888–1947), Barbara (1891–1900), and Eric Knight (1903–1926). Two of his daughters, Thora and Barbara, died in childhood.[51] His son Eric died in 1926 at age 22 in a traffic accident near Gilroy, California.[52][53] Eric had participated in a paleontological expedition to the Revillagigedo Islands and was considering an academic career.[54] Jordan's papers are housed at Stanford University.[55]
Death
Death
On September 19, 1931, Jordan died at his home on the Stanford University campus after suffering a series of strokes over two years.[56]
Geographical landmarks
Geographical landmarks
• Jordan Lake in the Uinta Mountains in Utah at[57] • Mount Jordan, a 4067 m mountain peak in Tulare County, California, located on the crest of the Kings-Kern divide of the west slope of the Sierra Nevadas at was named in 1926 in honor of Jordan by the United States Geographic Board at the behest of the Sierra Club.[58] Jordan commented that it was not the first mountain named in his honor since the first such mountain did not retain his name since it already had a name.[59] In July 2020, the president of the Sierra Club denounced Jordan and its other early leaders for being "vocal advocates for white supremacy and its pseudo-scientific arm, eugenics." The president also announced, "We will also spend the next year studying our history and determining which of our monuments need to be renamed or pulled down entirely." It is not yet clear how their reassessment would affect the status of Mount Jordan, which the club had helped to name in 1926, or that of other geographic features that bear Jordan's name.[60]
Namesake Tree
Namesake Tree
The David Starr Jordan "Namesake Tree" at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Campus Arboretum, an Indian rubber tree, known as Ficus elastica, was given to Jordan at the outset of a trip to Japan, and planted by him on December 11, 1922,[61] now listed as an Exceptional Tree of Hawai‘i.[62]
Fishery research vessel
Fishery research vessel
In 1966, the fisheries research ship David Starr Jordan was commissioned for service with the United States Fish and Wildlife Services Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. The ship later served in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fleet as NOAAS David Starr Jordan (R 444)[63] before it was decommissioned in 2010[64] and sold to a private company, who renamed it the R/V Ocean Starr.[65]
Schools named or formerly named for David Starr Jordan
Schools named or formerly named for David Starr Jordan
During the early 20th century several schools were named after him or in his honor. However, after 2018, most of them were renamed, as his eugenics activities became well known. • David Starr Jordan High School in Los Angeles, was established in 1923; in 2020 the name was shortened to Jordan High School to remove the reference to him while keeping "Jordan" as a generic legacy name for alumni.[66] • Jordan High School in Long Beach, California, established in 1934,[68] was still named for him when the school district last explored its possible renaming in mid-2020.[69] Three years later, a Long Beach middle school teacher tried to get the school board to restart the renaming process in October 2023, but nothing resulted from the attempt.[71] • Jordan Middle School in Palo Alto, California, established in 1937, was renamed in 2018 for African-American memory chip inventor Frank S. Greene.[72] • David Starr Jordan Middle School in Burbank, California, established in the 1940s, was renamed in 2021 for labor leader and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta.[75]
Campus buildings
Campus buildings
Since Jordan was closely associated with both Indiana University and Stanford University, both schools named buildings and other campus features after him. However, as his reputation became more controversial in the 2020s, they acted to remove Jordan's name from their respective campuses.
Stanford University
Stanford University
Stanford honored its former president in 1917 by renaming its zoology building, built in 1899, to Jordan Hall.[77] Other campus features were named Jordan Quad, Jordan Modulars, and Jordan Way. In October 2020 the Stanford Board of Trustees voted unanimously, on the recommendation of an advisory committee, to remove Jordan's name from all four facilities. The former Jordan Hall was to be referred to as Building 420 until a permanent name could be selected sometime the following year. Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne was charged to rename Jordan Quad and Jordan Modulars; however, Tessier-Lavigne was not able to accomplish this task before he left Stanford in 2023. The advisory committee also recommended that the renaming of Jordan Way, a street on the medical campus, "may take place during the course of ongoing construction and planning."[78]
Indiana University
Indiana University
When Indiana University built a new building for its biology department in 1956, the building was named in honor of Jordan, its former president and biology faculty member.[81] In October 2020 the Indiana University Board of Trustees voted overwhelmingly to remove Jordan's name from the biology building as well as a parking garage and a "river" (actually a small creek) that runs through the center of the campus. Jordan's name was stripped from these places immediately after the trustee meeting had concluded, and they were given temporary, generic names to be used until permanent names could be selected the following year. Jordan Hall, the Jordan River and the Jordan Avenue Parking Garage became respectively the Biology Building, the Campus River, and the East Parking Garage.[84] In August 2021, staff members of the Biology Department sent a petition to the new IU President Pamela Whitten urging the university leadership to rename the Biology Building in honor of James P. Holland, an African-American IU alumnus, award-winning former faculty member and endocrinologist who died in 1998.[87] Indiana President President Michael McRobbie requested the University Naming Committee to work with the city of Bloomington to find a name as a replacement for Jordan Avenue, a thoroughfare that is owned in part by IU and in part by the city.[89] As of October 2020, there were calls in the Bloomington City Council for Jordan Avenue to be renamed.[90] In April 2021, the Mayor of Bloomington created a seven-member task force to investigate possible replacement names for Jordan Avenue.[91] In September 2021, the City of Bloomington Plan Commission announced that it approved the renaming of Jordan Avenue to Eagleson Avenue while IU is in the process of renaming its section of the street to Fuller Lane pending approval by the IU Renaming Committee and IU's board of trustees. The city planned to complete their street renaming by February 2022. Both new street names honor prominent African-American families who moved to Bloomington after being born into slavery.[92] In December 2021, IU's board of trustees reconsidered their decision to rename the university's section of the street as Fuller Lane by adopting Eagleson Avenue as the new name for the university-owned section of Jordan Avenue.[93] As late as October 2024, the Indiana University South Bend campus had a scholarship named in honor of Jordan that enables its students to study outside of the United States for a short period.[95]
Selected articles
Selected articles
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Miscellany
Miscellany
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Eponymy
Eponymy
Numerous genera and species bear the name Jordan. Genera: Jordania Starks, 1895, Davidijordania Popov, 1931, and Jordanella Goode & Bean, 1879 Species: • Agonomalus jordani Jordan & Starks, 1904. • Agonomalus jordani Schmidt, 1904. • Allocareproctus jordani (Burke, 1930). • Astyanax jordani (Hubbs & Innes, 1936). • Coelorinchus jordani Smith & Pope, 1906. • Caulophryne jordani Goode & Bean, 1896. • Chimaera jordani Tanaka, 1905. • Charal, Chirostoma jordani Woolman, 1894. • Jordan's tuskfish, Choerodon jordani (Snyder, 1908). • Flame wrasse, Cirrhilabrus jordani Snyder, 1904. • Smooth lumpfish, Cyclopteropsis jordani Soldatov, 1929. • Diplacanthopoma jordani Garman, 1899. • Dusisiren jordani (Kellogg, 1925). • Mimic triplefin, Enneanectes jordani (Evermann & Marsh, 1899). • Petrale sole, Eopsetta jordani (Lockington, 1879). • Greenbreast darter, Etheostoma jordani Gilbert, 1891. • Gadella jordani (J. E. Böhlke & Mead, 1951). • Yellow Irish lord, Hemilepidotus jordani Bean, 1881. • Brokenline lanternfish, Lampanyctus jordani Gilbert, 1913. • Legionella jordanis • Jordan's snapper, Lutjanus jordani (Gilbert, 1898). • Shortjaw eelpout, Lycenchelys jordani (Evermann & Goldsborough, 1907). • Malthopsis jordani Gilbert, 1905. • Gulf grouper, Mycteroperca jordani (Jenkins & Evermann, 1889). • Neosalanx jordani Wakiya & Takahashi, 1937. • Patagonotothen jordani (Thompson, 1916). • Ptychidio jordani Myers, 1930. • Northern ronquil, Ronquilus jordani (Gilbert, 1889). • Shortbelly rockfish, Sebastes jordani (Gilbert, 1896). • Jordan's damsel, Teixeirichthys jordani (Rutter, 1897). • Jordan's sculpin, Triglops jordani (Schmidt, 1903).
Taxa described by him
Taxa described by him
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Identity and origins
Identity and origins
The authorities additionally record the headings D. Jordan, D.S.Jord, David S. Jordan and David Jordan. His recorded language was English. He was the child of Hiram Jordan and Huldah Lake Hawley. He married Susan Bowen Jordan and Jessie Knight Jordan. 3 children are recorded: Eric Knight Jordan, Edith Jordan Gardner and Knight Starr Jordan.
Work and production
Work and production
Works recorded as notable number 4: Manual of the vertebrate animals of the northern United States, Synopsis of the fishes of North America, A guide to the study of fishes and A classification of fishes: including families and genera as far as known.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 2 entries
1851
David Starr Jordan born at Gainesville.
1931
David Starr Jordan died at Stanford.
Places
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Places
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Gainesville.
Birth place
Stanford.
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Books
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Monuments and memorials
• Illustration — Jordan Hall, now known as Building 420, at Stanford University in May 2020
Primary material
Documents and archives
reference work
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q290343: David Starr Jordan
Reputable secondary · Wikimedia Foundation
- “David Starr Jordan”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
scholarly publication
- A guide to the study of fishes, by David Starr Jordan, 1905
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 1905
Lifetime honors and awards
Lifetime honors and awards
• 1877 Honorary Ph.D. awarded by Butler University[45] • 1886 Honorary LL.D. awarded by Cornell University[46] • 1902 Honorary LL.D. awarded by Johns Hopkins University[47] • 1909 Honorary LL.D. awarded by Indiana University[48]
Cornell's David Starr Jordan Prize (1986–2020)
Cornell's David Starr Jordan Prize (1986–2020)
Starting in 1986, the David Starr Jordan Prize was funded as a joint endowment by Cornell University, Indiana University, and Stanford University. Every three years it was awarded to a young scientist (under 40 years) who made contributions in one of Jordan's interests of evolution, ecology, population or organismal biology.[96] The prize was last awarded in 2015 to Daniel Bolnick, a professor of integrative biology at the University of Texas at Austin.[97] As Jordan's reputation became more controversial over his support of eugenics, and particularly after the removal of Jordan's name from buildings on the campuses of Stanford and Indiana universities in 2020, there were calls to rename the prize. The prize was officially discontinued in 2020 and the endowment funds were returned to their respective universities.[98]
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- 1.David Starr Jordan '72. Cornell Alumni News. I. 6. 39, 43. May 10, 1899.
- 2.David Starr Jordan The Blood of the Nation: A Study of the Decay of Races through the Survival of the Unfit. (copyright 1902, reprinted 1910) p 12 . The term "race" occurs more than 30 times in the short book. The term "eugenics" is not in there, but the basic concept is described.
- 3.Abrahamson, James L. David Starr Jordan and American Antimilitarism. The Pacific Northwest Quarterly. 67. 2. 76–87 [79]. 1976. 40489774.
- 4.David Starr Jordan. Is America a Christian Nation? he United States Spends $25,000,000 a Year for Its Navy and $9,090,000 for Foreign Missions — or Promoting Peace on Earth. The Expositor and Current Anectodes. 131–133. December 1912.
- 5.Johnston, Theresa. Meet President Jordan. Stanford Magazine. January–February 2010.
- 6.Jordan, David Starr. The days of a man : being memories of a naturalist, teacher, and minor prophet of democracy. World Book Co. 1922.
- 7.Yacovone, Donald. Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity. Pantheon Books. 37. 2022. 9780593316634.
- 8.Cornell University. Cornell alumni directory, containing the foundation, history, and government of the University; the principal alumni organizations; a directory of the alumni. Ithaca, N.Y. 1922.
- 9.Jordan, David Starr. The Days of a Man: 1851-1899. World Book Company. 1922.
- 10.James T. White & Company. Jordan, David Starr. The National cyclopaedia of American biography. 22. 68–70. 1932.
- 11.Medical College of Indiana. lost-colleges.
- 12.Jordan, David Starr. The Days of a Man: 1851-1899. World Book Company. 1922.
- 13.Jordan, David Starr. The Days of a Man: 1851-1899. World Book Company. 1922.
- 14.Jordan, David Starr. Footnotes to Evolution: A Series of Popular Addresses on the Evolution of Life. D. Appleton. 1907.
- 15.Jordan, David Starr. Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States, Including the District East of the Mississippi River, and North of North Carolina and Tennessee, Exclusive of Marine Species. Jansen, McClurg. 1884.
- 16.Butler College Alumni Directory 1856-1912.
- 17.Johnsson, L. Guest Opinion: The inconvenient truth about David Starr Jordan. Palo Alto Online. Embarcadero Media. 19 February 2016.
- 18.David Starr Jordan Collected Papers (CDG-A), Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Swarthmore College.
- 19.Indiana University Board of Trustees minutes. Indiana University Board of Trustees minutes, December 1884.
- 20.Watson, James D. Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science. Knopf Doubleday Publishing. 44. 2010. 9780375727146.
- 21.David Starr Jordan. The Independent. Jul 13, 1914.
- 22.Dulfer & Hoag (1925). Our Society Blue Book . San Francisco: Dulfer & Hoag, pp. 177–178.
- 23.Sierra Club. Roster of Sierra Club Directors.
- 24.APS Member History. search.amphilsoc.org.
- 25.Hudson, Monica. Carmel-By-The-Sea. Arcadia Publishing. 24. 2006. 9780738531229.
- 26.Dramov, Alissandra. Carmel-by-the-Sea, The Early Years. Author House. 101. 2012. 9781491824146.
- 27.David Starr Jordan, The Human Harvest (Boston, 1907) p. 5
- 28.Jordan, D.S. The Human Harvest. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 45. 182. 54–69. January 1906. 983679.
- 29.Jordan, D.S. War Selection in the Ancient World. The Scientific Monthly. 1. 36–43. October 1915. 6241.
- 30.Jordan, D.S. The Last Cost of War. Advocate of Peace Through Justice. 86. 2. 110–114. February 1924. 20660507.
- 31.Nye, Joseph. Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History. Longman. 6. 2005.
- 32.Jordan, David Starr. The Blood of the Nation. American Unitarian Association. 2. 1910.
- 33.Jordan (Boston, 1907)
- 34.Jordan, David Starr. The Days of a Man. World Book Company. One. 132. 1922.
- 35.Jordan, Blood of the Nation (Boston, 1910) p. 2 .
- 36.Jordan, David Starr. The Days of a man v. 1. World Book Company. September 4, 1922.
- 37.Jordan, David Starr. War and the Breed: The Relation of War to the Downfall of Nations. World Book. September 4, 1922.
- 38."Human Sterilization Today"
- 39.Morris, A. D. Review of The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford. Hawaiian Journal of History. Hawaiian Historical Society. 38. 195–197. 2004.
- 40.Jordan (1922). The Days of a Man. Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York: World Book Co., pages 156–157.
- 41.Romney, Lee. The Alma Mater Mystery. Los Angeles Times. 2003-10-10.
- 42.Cutler, Robert W. P. The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford. Stanford University Press. 1 August 2003. 978-0-8047-4793-6.
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- 44.Wolfe, Susan. Who Killed Jane Stanford?. Stanford Magazine. Stanford University. September–October 2003.
- 45.Butler University. Butler College Alumni Directory 1856-1912. 43. 1912.
- 46.Saulnier, Beth. CAM Online Exclusive ? Faculty Reject Honorary Degrees. Cornell Alumni Magazine. 15 May 2008.
- 47.Johns Hopkins University. Honorary Degrees Awarded.
- 48.Indiana University. University Honors & Awards.
- 49.Gardner, Martin. (1957). Preface. In Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science. Dover Publications.
- 50.Stableford, Brian M. (2006). Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. p. 410.
- 51.Miller, Lulu. Why fish don't exist : a story of loss, love, and the hidden order of life. 2020. 978-1-5011-6027-1.
- 52.Guérard, Albert. Eric Knight Jordan. Sigma Xi Quarterly. 14. 2. 55–56. 1926.
- 53.Guérard, Albert. Eric Knight Jordan, 1903–1926. Copeia. 152. S1. 1926. 10.1126/science.63.1630.327.
- 54.Hanna, G. Dallas. Expedition to the Revillagigedo Islands, Mexico, in 1925. General Report. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 15. 1. 1–113. 1926.
- 55.Guide to the David Starr Jordan Papers. Stanford University archives.
- 56.Dr. David Starr Jordan Dies; Family With Educator As Passes Away: Fifth Attack Ends an Illness of Two Years. Healdsburg Tribune. 269. 1. September 19, 1931.
- 57.John W. Van Cott. Utah Place Names: A Comprehensive Guide to the Origins of Geographic Names : a Compilation. University of Utah Press. 207–208. 1990. 978-0-87480-345-7.
- 58.Mountain Peak Is Named for Jordan. Bakersfield Californian. 2. February 8, 1926.
- 59.Jordan, David Starr. Mount Jordan. Science. 63. 1633. 402. 16 April 1926. 10.1126/science.63.1633.402.
- 60.Brune, Michael. Pulling Down Our Monuments. Sierra Club. July 22, 2020.
- 61.Jackson, Frances. Papers of the Ad Hoc Committee on Preservation of Campus Plantings. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. 1975.
- 62.UH Mānoa · Campus Plant Collections. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
- 63.NOAA Ship DAVID STARR JORDAN. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 29 April 2004.
- 64.NOAA Ship David Starr Jordan. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 1 February 2012.
- 65.RV Ocean Starr. California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigation. 27 August 2014.
- 66.Blume, Howard. Watts' Jordan High cuts association with promoter of eugenics but keeps partial name. Los Angeles Times. 2020-10-08.
- 67.Tat, Linh. LAUSD removes eugenicist from name of L.A.'s Jordan High: Renaming of campus buildings a growing trend amid racial justice movement. Los Angeles Daily News. October 9, 2020.
- 68.School Will Bear Name of David Starr Jordan. Indianapolis Star. 12. January 2, 1934.
- 69.Guardabascio, Mike. After renewed cry for change, LBUSD reconvenes committee to examine school names. Long Beach Post. August 6, 2020.
- 70.Rosenfeld, David. Push On To Rename Schools, Including In Long Beach. Grunion. July 12, 2020.
- 71.Kazenoff, Tess. LBUSD teacher calls for renewed push to rename schools honoring racist figures. Long Beach Post. October 23, 2023.
- 72.Kadvany, Elena. School board votes to rename schools after Frank Greene, Ellen Fletcher: Divisive, years long debate ends with final decision Tuesday night. Palo Alto Weekly. March 28, 2018.
- 73.Kelly, Kevin. Palo Alto: Middle schools to be named after Frank Greene Jr., Ellen Fletcher: Terman Middle School will be renamed in honor of Ellen Fletcher, Jordan Middle will be renamed after Frank Greene Jr., putting end to controversy. San Jose Mercury News. March 28, 2018.
- 74.Ashoke, Sohini. Board cuts eugenicist ties with vote to rename schools. Gunn Oracle. March 31, 2017.
- 75.Sahakyan, Marian. Burbank school board votes to change name of David Starr Jordan Middle School. Los Angeles Times. April 22, 2019.
- 76.Paredes, Lisa. Jordan Renamed To Dolores Huerta Middle School. My Burbank. March 5, 2021.
- 77.Stanford University. Annual Report of the President of the University for the Twenty Sixth Academic Year ending July 31st, 1917. 1917.
- 78.Peacock, Chris. Stanford will rename campus spaces named for David Starr Jordan and relocate statue depicting Louis Agassiz: President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and the Board of Trustees approved a campus committee's recommendation both to remove Jordan's name from campus spaces and to take steps to make his multifaceted history better known. Stanford also will relocate a statue of Agassiz. Stanford News. October 7, 2020.
- 79.Espinosa, Michael. Stanford to rename spaces honoring David Starr Jordan, founding president and noted eugenicist: Statue of Jordan's mentor Louis Agassiz also to be relocated. October 7, 2020.
- 80.Reports of the Advisory Committee on renaming Jordan Hall and removing the statue of Louis Agassiz. Stanford University. September 14, 2020.
- 81.To Dedicate New IU Biology Hall Friday. Palladium-Item. 1. June 4, 1956.
- 82.Kimberling, Clark. David Starr Jordan Landmarks on the campus of Indiana University, Bloomington. University of Evansville.
- 83.Jordan River. Indiana Alumni Magazine. 18. 7. June 1956.
- 84.Reschke, Michael. IU board approves removing Jordan name from building, river, parking garage. The Herald-Times. October 2, 2020.
- 85.Berman, Eric. IU Removes Name of Eugenics Advocate From Campus Buildings. WIBC (FM). October 2, 2020.
- 86.Report and Recommendations. The Committee to Review Namings in Honor of Indiana University's Seventh President David Starr Jordan. September 1, 2020.
- 87.IU biology staff want building named for noted Black teacher. WRTV. August 27, 2021.
- 88.McGerr, Patrick. Petitioners want IU building named for James Holland, biology pioneer. The Herald-Times. August 26, 2021.
- 89.President McRobbie to recommend removal of Jordan namings on IU Bloomington campus. IU News. September 24, 2020.
- 90.Askins, Dave. Taliaferro Avenue floated as new name for city street that cuts through IU campus, part of effort to remove Jordan namings. B Square Beacon. October 8, 2020.
- 91.Pebworth, Hugh. City of Bloomington to rename Jordan Avenue, create task force with IU. Indiana Daily Student. April 22, 2021.
- 92.Garber, Cameron. City of Bloomington to rename Jordan Avenue after important African American family. Indiana Daily Student. September 15, 2021.
- 93.Feickert, Beth. Jordan Avenue to be renamed in honor of Eagleson family. Indisana University. December 3, 2021.
- 94.Gilley, Sean. IU-owned section of Jordan Avenue to be renamed Eagleson Avenue. Indiana Daily Student. December 3, 2021.
- 95.International Study Abroad Scholarship Application. Indiana University South Bend. January 17, 2019.
- 96.The David Starr Jordan Prize.
- 97.IU, Stanford and Cornell name Jordan Prize recipient. Indiana Daily Student. February 10, 2015.
- 98.Indiana University Bloomington. Front side of The David Starr Jordan Prize. Archives Photograph Collection.
- 99.Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Order LOPHIIFORMES (part 2): Families CAULOPHRYNIDAE, NEOCERATIIDAE, MELANOCETIDAE, HIMANTOLOPHIDAE, DICERATIIDAE, ONEIRODIDAE, THAUMATICHTHYIDAE, CENTROPHRYNIDAE, CERATIIDAE, GIGANTACTINIDAE and LINOPHRYNIDAE. The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. 22 September 2018.
- 100.Cherry, W B. Legionella jordanis: a new species of Legionella isolated from water and sewage. J Clin Microbiol. 15. 2. 290–297. February 1982. 10.1128/JCM.15.2.290-297.1982.
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- Dickason, David H. A Note on Jack London and David Starr Jordan. Indiana Magazine of History. 38. 4. 407–410. 1942. 27787335.
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David Starr Jordan studied at Butler University, Indiana University Bloomington, Cornell University and Indiana University School of Medicine. The record notes the qualification Doctor of Philosophy. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
David Starr Jordan worked in ichthyology. He was employed by Smithsonian Institution, Butler University, Indiana University Bloomington and Stanford University. He belonged to Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Stanford University. Recorded as botanist, peace activist, zoologist, autobiographer and ichthyologist.
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