James and Mary Jordan had a daughter named Alice, their first born. Alice married Wheeler J. Rogers, also known by his boyhood name as Ben. Ben Rogers he came to Grants Pass, Oregon from Missouri. Known for his great charm and personality, he reportedly also arrived with a lot of money, and boarded at the Jordan’s Grants Pass Hotel.
Alice Jordan Rogers was a determined businesswoman, she leased the Harkness Hotel in 1905 and then purchased the Leland Hotel in June of 1906. She also purchased the Wolf Creek Tavern and store in Oct 1908. 
She was no stranger to the hotel or store business as her father James Jordan owned the Commercial Hotel in Grants Pass in 1884. Local news recorded in March 12, 1909 -  states that she was building a fence around the property of the  Wolf Creek Tavern. Her younger brother Ed Jordan, was managing her store when she purchased the Steiner estate of 260 acres just south of town. 
Alice would become a major landowner in Wolf Creek. In 1913, Alice installed an electric plant to light the hotel worked to supply lights for the residents of Wolf Creek as electric power was not yet in Wolf Creek. In 1916 she leased the hotel to Roy and Mabel Davis – the parents of Eva Davidson’s first husband.
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Ben Rogers was a friend and life-long correspondent of Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) and was the same boy whom generations of readers would have known as Ben Rogers. Ben Rogers, the high-spirited, hop-skip and jumper, the imitator of a tooting Mississippi River steamboat who was on his way to a swimming hole when his was finagled by Tom Sawyer into whitewashing a section of fence that Tom was supposed to be painting himself, and what’s more Ben gladly paid Tom for the privilege to do it!  It turns out that Wheeler “Ben” Rogers was also a nephew of Henry Huddleston Rogers, the Standard Oil magnate, whom Samuel Clemens called a loyal friend and financial supporter.