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James Jourdan was a veteran of the Civil War who went on to become one of the most prominent men in the old City of Brooklyn, New York at the turn of the century. His is an interesting story of an Irish immigrant who was a Union Officer in the Civil War, a prominent Republican politician, Police Commission, President of of Brooklyn Union Gas Co. (now part of Keyspan) and partner of August Belmont and Cornelius Vanderbilt and others in the development of the first subway system in New York City. James Jourdan was born in Ireland on June 12, 1832