Ada Jordan Pray

[1] Her parents Wendell Jordan (1837–1901) and Gertrude Elizabeth Bearer (1858–1941), were of French-Swiss and German extraction.

She was writer of songs and pianoforte music, she composed: "Veit Knickerbocker," (operetta),[2] Dancing with you, song, words by Maud Gilbert,[3] Swiss Echo Song, words and music,[4] Wishing on a Star in the Valley of the Moon, words by Nell Griffith Wilson, sung by Connie Von Loben Sels,[5] and "Schubertiana": symphony movement in rondo form: to be used with unison chorus if desired.

[1] She was the president of the Social Center of the Oroville Monday Club[1] and of the National Music-Dramatic Honor Society in San Francisco.

[9] She was a member of the Durham Woman's Club and the Butte County Branch of the National League of American Pen Women.

[2] The Ada Jordan Pray Papers are preserved at the Special Collections, Meriam Library, California State University, Chico.