Maj. Michael Edick Hess and Rebecca Emeline Jordan

---

---

Husband Maj. Michael Edick Hess ¹

---

           Born: 1826 - Herkimer Co, NY 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 23 Feb 1904 - Knox, Beaver Twp, Clarion Co, PA 2
         Buried: 

       Marriage: 

---

---

Wife Rebecca Emeline Jordan ³

---

            AKA: R. Emma Jordan 4 5
           Born: 11 Jan 1842 - Tusseyville, Potter Twp, Centre Co, PA 1 6
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

---

         Father: Joseph Jordan (1804-1893) 4 7 8
         Mother: Elizabeth Bear (1806-1889) 7 8

---

---

Children

---

---

General Notes: Husband - Maj. Michael Edick Hess

---

Few men have been better known in the Venango-Clarion oil fields. Mr. Hess was peculiarly self-made from a wee boy. At twelve he did inland commerce on the Erie Canal. At sixteen he was a student at Fayettville Academy, New York, and was companion of William Cleveland, and often saw his younger brother, Grover, at one time President of the United States. At eighteen, teaching, etc. For fifteen years he dealt in lumber shipping from Catteraugus County, New York, to Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, and into Kentucky. Here he saw slavery in its milder form face to face. The Civil War disturbed the lumber trade, which the panic of 1857 had somewhat already demoralized. Mr. Hess then began oil operations at Mecca, Ohio. In August, 1862, in the call for troops from Ohio, he was the first man to put his name down of those who formed the 105th O. V. I. For a year this regiment met the terrors of Morgan, the raider in Kentucky. Mr. Hess was disabled and honorably discharged. Later he re-enlisted, and was promoted from First Lieutenant to Major, and was in active service until the close of the war.\emdash Venango Vindicator.

Major Hess, of Knox, Pa., whose death was noted in last week's issue, was 77 years of age, when the summons came to him Tuesday evening, February 23rd, 1904, to "come up higher," and his spirit passed out to a new sphere. Mr. Hess was in every way worthy of and prepared for his promotion. It came to him while his physical and mental forces were yet unabated and while his heart, his head and his hands were full of work for the betterment of mankind and the glory of his Creator. As a man of God, it is again true that he "walked with God" in the purposes of his life, "and was not, for God took him." Being an earnest, sincere Christian, faithful in all things, it follows that his home was a type of the heaven it was his purpose to gain. Thoughtful, loving and kind, his wife was united with him in affection, such as characterizes a true home. His genial, cheerful spirit made him a blessing in the social life of the community where he resided. As a citizen, he always stood nobly for those things which would purify and uplift the community and was active in performing conscientiously every duty he owed to the people and gave much time to discharging official obligations entrusted to him. In all the relations of life, his words, his actions and his character contributed to the sum of human good. An honor to his race in his day and generation, he has laid down labor for rest, trial for triumph. In politics he was a Republican. \emdash Clarion Democrat.

---

General Notes: Wife - Rebecca Emeline Jordan

---

Her health was not sufficiently strong during girlhood to permit her to gratify her wish for a collegiate education, but after completing a course in the common schools she attended the academy at Aaronsburg, and her mental powers assimilated through reading and observation an unusual amount of information. She was highly accomplished, and was at one time especially proficient in music, in which she gave lessons. During the last years of her parents' lives she gave them the most devoted and watchful care, ministering to their every need, and brightening their hours of pain or weariness with her filial love. Her kindliness of heart found a wide field of expression in generous assistance to different charities, and she did much for the Reformed Church, of which she was a consistent member. Always active in its various lines of work, she was especially helpful at the time of the building of the new church edifice, being one of the leaders in the Ladies Aid Society, after a career of six years succeeding in raising funds to the amount of $1,093. Neither was she lacking in practical business ability, her management of her father's estate, as executrix under the will, showing rare tact, discretion and firmness of character.

After her husband's death she did a great amount of travelling through the Southern as well as Western states, spending the winter of 1906 in California. She sold out in Knox, Pennsylvania, in 1907, and moved to Lock Haven.

1 Daniel M. and Robert B. Bare, Genealogy of Johannes Baer (Harrisburg, PA: Central Printing and Publishing House, 1910), Pg 71.

2 Daniel M. and Robert B. Bare, Genealogy of Johannes Baer (Harrisburg, PA: Central Printing and Publishing House, 1910), Pg 72.

3 Daniel M. and Robert B. Bare, Genealogy of Johannes Baer (Harrisburg, PA: Central Printing and Publishing House, 1910), Pg 66.

4 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 304.

5 Daniel M. and Robert B. Bare, Genealogy of Johannes Baer (Harrisburg, PA: Central Printing and Publishing House, 1910), Pg 70.

6 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 305.

7 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 177.

8 Daniel M. and Robert B. Bare, Genealogy of Johannes Baer (Harrisburg, PA: Central Printing and Publishing House, 1910), Pg 65.