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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 2913gallant soldier of the Confederacy in the Civil war, in which he was a memberof a Oeorgia regiment. Judge Cullen L. Battle, maternal grandfatherof ofDoctor Jordan, was a< prominent lawyer of ScMey County, where he servedfour years as judge of the court of ordinary and where he was an honoredand influential citizen of Ellaville for many years prior te his death, whichhere occurred in 1903, when he was nearly eighty-five .years of age. Heserved many years as justice of the peace and was a man of sterling characterand fine intellectual ken. His wife, whose family name was Countryman,was a native of Schley County and she preceded him to the life eternal. Sidney J. Jordan, who is now living virutally retired, devoted the major partof his active career to. agricultural pursuits, in connection with which hegained distinctive success. Both he and his wife are zealous members .of theMethodist Church at Ellaville, and his political convictions are indicated by.the staunch support which he gives to the cause of the democratic party.Of the four children Doctor Jordan, of this sketch, is the youngest; CeolaC., eldest of the number, is a progressive and substantial agriculturist ofSchley County; William Cullen is engaged in successful farming operationsin Sumter County; and E. Ronley is engaged in the automobile and stockbusiness at Ellaville.In formulating his plans for a future career Doctor Jordan was animatedby high ambition and resolute purpose, as he determined to prepare himselffor the medical profession, one of the most exacting and responsible vocations to which a man can give attention. He entered the Atlanta Collegeof Physicians and Surgeons, in which he completed the prescribed technicalcourse and was graduated as a member of the class of 1902. After thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he further fortified himself by the valuable clinical experience which he gained through serving six months as internein the Atlanta City Hospital, and in 1911 .he completed an effective post-graduate course in the celebrated New York Poly clinic Medical School andHospital, where he remained six months. In the spring of 1916 he againevidenced his ambition to keep fully in advance with most modern and approved methods exemplified in medical and surgical science, for he then completed a four weeks' special post-graduate course in the medical departmentof the great Johns Hopkins University, in the City of Baltimore, Maryland,and did additional work at New York in the summer of 1916.In 1903 Doctor Jordan initiated the active practice of his profession atEllaville, and in this field, far from being one of metropolitan type, he hasbrought to bear the fine resources of a thoroughly skilled physician andsurgeon, the while his success has caused his reputation to far transcend merelocal limitation and to give him precedence as one of the essentially representative physicians and surgeons of his native commonwealth. He controls avery large practice and, as previously noted, has been remarkably successfulin the treatment of pellagra. In connection with his professional activitieshe owns and conducts the leading drug store of Ellaville, and the same isreally metropolitan in its appointments, equipment and facilities. The doctoris a cultured, genial and kindly gentleman who well upholds the fine old socialtraditions of the South, and his circle of friends is practically coincident withthat of his acquaintances.Doctor Jordan is actively identified with the American Medical Association, the Georgia State Medical Society, and the Sumter County Medical Society, of which last mentioned organization he has served as vice president.Ilis political allegiance is given to the democratic party; in the Masonic fraternity he has advanced to chivalric honors, as a member of the KnightsTemplar at Ellaville, besides being affiliated with the Temple of the AncientArabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine at Americus, and with theEllaville Lodge of the Knights of Pythias, and the local organization ofthe "Woodmen of the World. Both he and his wife are zealous members of the