Edith Monica Jordan Gardner (February 17, 1877 – June 16, 1965) was an American educator, specialized in history and an activist, including woman's suffrage and in the Sierra Club.

[1] In 1905, Edith Jordan accompanied her father during a months long stay in Europe, visiting leading universities to learn about their management.

[10] Gardner began her professional life as high school teacher of history and drew from personal experiences to make her lessons appealing.

We must know, not only their political happenings, but something of their agriculture, their society, their commerce.Her pupils found her teaching so effective that they cited her words instead of those of textbooks during examinations.

[13] From 1909 to 1915, Jordan was the head of the History Department at the Los Angeles Polytechnic High School,[2] where she had taught for several years prior.

"[21] In November 1913, she undertook a one-month trip in Egypt, following the Nile, with Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president of the University of California, and his wife.

[23] Once home, she gave a highly appreciated talk on the meaning of the flag to an American abroad during the George Washington's birthday celebrations.

[27] To attend suffrage meetings that were held regularly in Berkeley, she had to travel approximately 370 miles in each direction by steam-powered railroad from her home in Los Angeles.

[28] In 1907, Jordan became involved in environmental preservation as one of the earliest members of the Sierra Club[29][30] and by promoting natural walks to her students.

[39] In 1940, she spoke in front of the Lake Arrowhead Women's Club on her traveling experience on Balkan countries, the then Yugoslavia, Hungary and Romania.

[40] Her 1961 unpublished manuscript, "The days of Edith Jordan Gardner", is preserved at the Stanford University Archives and is used are reference material by other authors, like Harriet Kofalk for "No woman tenderfoot: Florence Merriam Bailey, pioneer naturalist".

[48] Three weeks after the engagement was announced, Berwick was discovered dead of apparent natural causes in his parents' home in Pacific Grove, California, at the age of 34.

[49] Due to a winter storm that made roads impassable near Santa Barbara, both Edith Jordan and her father became stuck in transit and missed Berwick's funeral.