David Starr Jordan, Ph.D., LL.D. ( January 19 , 1851 – September 19 , 1931 ) was a leading ichthyologist (the study of fish), educator and peace activist. He was president of Indiana University (Bloomington) and Stanford University. Unsourced There...
Biography
Name:
David Starr Jordan
Birth Date:
January 19, 1851
Death Date:
September 19, 1931
Place of Birth:
Gainesville, New York, United States
Nationality:
American
Gender:
Male
Occupations:
scientist, university administrator, ichthyologist
David Starr Jordan (1851-1931), American scientist and university administrator, distinguished himself as a teacher of biology, an ichthyologist, and an influential college president. David Starr Jordan was born in Gainesville, N.Y., on Jan. 19, 1851....
1851-1931 American botanist and administrator. After attending Cornell University, Jordan secured a permanent position at Indiana University, where he quickly rose to president. Jordan instituted major reforms that substantially raised the quality of...
David Starr Jordan, Ph.D., LL.D. (January 19, 1851 – September 19, 1931) was a leading ichthyologist (the study of fish), educator and peace activist. He was president of Indiana University and Stanford...
Mangan, David Jordan Monday, March 15, 2004 Mangan, David Jordan Passed peacefully into Eternal Life Wednesday, March 10, 2004, surrounded by family in his Wauwatosa home of 54 years at the age of 87. He was born in his boyhood home in Wauwatosa on...
After a break for lunch, the questioning of Starr began with Abbe D. Lowell, the counsel for the committee's Democratic minority. Initially limited to 30 minutes, Hyde ruled that Lowell could continue for an hour. Lowell began with an attempt to establish that Starr...
The walk to and from David Starr Jordan High School is a perilous journey that winds through one of the city's deadliest ganglands.Safely navigating the turf is a matter of street smarts, luck and, for some, guidance from a man widely known as "Big Mike."With...
