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The Financial Angel Who Rescued 3M the Life and Times of Lucius Pond Ordway Sinclair Lewis Was Wrong See Letters A Publication of the Ramsey County Historical Society —Page 3 Volume 36, Number 3 The Financial Angel Who Rescued 3M The Life and Times of Lucius Pond Ordway Lucius Ordway with his daughter Katharine around 1909. Photograph from H. H. Irvine, III. See article beginning on page 4. RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORY Executive Director Priscilla Farnham Editor Virginia Brainard Kunz RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Volume 36, Number 3 Fall, 2001 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Howard M. Guthmann Chair James Russell • CONTENTS President 3 Letters Marlene Marschall First Vice President 4 The Financial Angel Who Rescued 3M Ronald J. Zweber The Life and Times of Lucius Pond Ordway Second Vice President Richard A. Wilhoit Virginia Brainard Kunz and John M. Lindley Secretary Peter K. Butler Publication of Ramsey County History is supported in part by a gift from Treasurer Clara M. Claussen and Frieda H. Claussen in memory of Henry H. Cowie, Jr. and by a contribution from the late Reuel D. Harmon Charles L. Bathke, W. Andrew Boss, Peter K. Butler, Norbert Conzemius, Anne Cowie, Char­ lotte H. Drake, Joanne A. Englund, Robert F. Garland, John M. Harens, Joan Higinbotham, Rod Hill, Judith Frost Ixwis, John M. Lindley, George A. Mairs, Marlene Marschall, Richard T. Murphy, Sr., Richard Nicholson, Linda Owen, Marvin J. Pertzik, Glenn Wiessner, Laurie Zenner. A Message from the Editorial Board EDITORIAL BOARD John M. Lindley, chair; James B. Bell, Henry eading the story of my great-grandfather, Lucius Pond Ordway, written for this Blodgett, Thomas H. Boyd, Thomas C. Buckley, R issue of Ramsey County History, was exciting for me because I really knew very Mark Esenschenk, Pat Hart, Thomas J. Kelley, little about him. Today those who do know about his career typically are aware only of Tom Mega, Laurie Murphy, Richard H. Nichol­ his efforts to keep the fledgling Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company— son, G. Richard Slade. 3M—afloat during its uncertain early years. Many men and women who played a role HONORARY ADVISORY BOARD in the history of Minnesota have extensive files at the Minnesota Historical Society, but Elmer L. Andersen, Olivia I. Dodge, Charlton when I looked there for information about Ordway, I found only five photographs of Dietz, William Finney, William Fallon, Otis him. I knew there had to be more to his story. Godfrey, Jr., Robert S. Hess, D. W. “Don” Working from a few specific leads provided by those of us who are his descendants, Larson, George Latimer, Joseph S. Micallef, Robert Mirick, Marvin J. Pertzik, J. Jerome the Ramsey County Historical Society has been able to construct an interesting account Plunkett, James Reagan, Rosalie E. Wahl, of Ordway’s life, his family, his many business associates, his varied contributions to Donald D. Wozniak. the city of St. Paul, and his era that spanned one of the liveliest periods in our states’ history. Many people contributed to this work. John Lindley did the research into Ord­ RAMSEY COUNTY COMMISSIONERS way’s life and career, and Virginia Kunz turned these raw materials into a highly read­ Commissioner Rafael Ortega, chairman Commissioner Susan Haigh able story. Along the way, they had help from family members John G. and Marge Commissioner Tony Bennett Ordway, Alexandra Bjorklund, and David Nicholson, who shared their memories, pho­ Commissioner James McDonough tographs, and family papers. Commissioner Victoria Reinhardt Commissioner Janice Rettman I’m particularly grateful to Carl Drake who gave of his time and memories of the Commissioner Jan Wiessner Drake and Ordway families. Kevin Howley, a genealogist with a wide knowledge of Paul Kirkwold, manager, Ramsey County New England families, volunteered his time and expertise. Jim Erickson of the Ramsey County Historical Society’s staff, provided information about St. Paul’s Virginia Street Ramsey County History is published quar­ Swedenborgian Church, and Molly Spillman, the Society’s curator and archivist, terly by the Ramsey County Historical Society, 323 Landmark Center, 75 W. Fifth helped gather Ordway photographs. Thanks also are due to Martha Mitchell, archivist Street, St. Paul, Minn. 55102 (651-222- at Brown University; Eileen McCormack, associate curator of the Hill manuscripts at 0701). Printed in U.S.A. Copyright, 2001, the James J. Hill Reference Library; and Loralee Bloom, 3M project archivist at the Ramsey County Historical Society. ISSN Minnesota Historical Society. Number 0485-9758. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reprinted My final thanks go to Priscilla Farnham, executive director of the Ramsey County or otherwise reproduced without written Historical Society, for her support for the idea of finding out more about Ordway and permission from the publisher. The Soci­ her willingness to see this project through to completion. I hope you enjoy reading this ety assumes no responsibility for statements biographical account of the life and times of Lucius P. Ordway as much as I did. made by contributors. Fax 651-223-8539; e-mail address [email protected].; web site Richard H. Nicholson, member of the Editorial Board address www.rchs.com 2 RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORY The Financial Angel Who Rescued 3M The Life and Times of Lucius Pond Ordway Virginia Brainard Kunz and John M. Lindley s the family story goes, in 1883 a young man, twenty-one years of awaited him in those years after the Civil War. By the 1870s the second phase of age and just out of college, walked the railroad tracks from Min­ the Industrial Revolution had gathered neapolis to St. Paul where he would begin a career that would earn steam in America. Mechanics from Eng­ himA a fortune and loft him into the upper ranks of his adopted city’s leadership. land and Europe flooded into the country, bringing with them new ideas for new Their son James married Elizabeth Heath Just why Lucius Ordway paused in products. In New York Aaron Lucius Ord­ Their son Moses married Anna Huntington Minneapolis before trudging on to St. way, as the New York Dyeing and Print­ Their son Moses, Jr., married Persis Ord­ Paul is lost in the passage of time. Per­ ing Company’s representative, was ap­ way, a cousin haps he simply was visiting family proached by a company worker, one of friends before joining a small plumbing And when their son, Aaron Ordway, who those immigrant mechanics with an idea. company in the state’s capital city. Al­ was bom in 1792 in New Hampshire, Richard A. Rupp and Peter R. Townsend, though Ordway remained in the plumb­ married Catherine Pond in 1818, the name authors of a history of the Arkwright ing business for the rest of his life, his Pond would continue down the Ordway Manufacturing Company in Providence, name has been linked most visibly to the family line. Aaron and Catherine Pond tell the story of James Gee. A native of rise of a fledgling manufacturing com­ Ordway’s son, Aaron Lucius Ordway, England, Gee’s dream was to operate his pany now known as 3M. He was far more was bom in 1821 in Franklin, Massachu­ own business manufacturing bookcloth, than the financial force behind the setts. He married Frances Ellen Hanson a durable cotton fabric used to cover nascent 3M, however. He was among a in 1859 in Providence, Rhode Island, and hardbound books. Gee, in true entrepre­ band of entrepreneurs from the East who they had two sons, Samuel Hanson Ord­ neurial fashion, “began his venture in his arrived in St. Paul during the last half of way in 1860 and Lucius Pond in 1862. wife’s kitchen, experimenting with dyes, the nineteenth century to build railroads, For some years after the births of his starch and other materials, and used her establish banks and insurance compa­ sons, Aaron Lucius evidently divided his ironing board and flat irons” to perfect nies, found mercantile houses, and drag time between Brooklyn and Providence. the process. Then, the authors wrote, Gee the city out of its pioneer past. Records from the period list him as a sought out “a prominent New York busi­ Like his peers, Lucius Pond Ordway’s dealer in coal and iron in the 1870s and nessman and capitalist, Aaron L[uciiis]. credentials were impeccably New Eng­ 1880s. He was, according to the Provi­ Ordway, and asked him to finance his land, although he actually was born in dence City Directory, lodging at the Nar- work.” Ordway brought Gee to Provi­ Brooklyn, New York, on January 21, ragansett Hotel in downtown Providence dence, introduced him to William F. 1862. The Ordways were descendants of in 1879, indicating that he was indeed Sayles, and explained that Gee could pro­ an old New England family with roots traveling back and forth between the two duce quality bookcloth if he had the that traced back to one James Ordway, cities, perhaps developing significant proper machinery and tools. The result bom in 1621 in Worchestershire, Eng­ business connections with important peo­ was that Gee secured a patent and entered land. With other emigrants, he arrived in ple in Providence and quietly paving the into partnership with Ordway and Sayles. Newbury, Massachusetts, around 1635 or way for his first son’s success. “On May 27, 1880,” the authors 1640. There, in 1648, he married Anne An Illustrated History of Rhode Island, wrote, “an act of the Rhode Island Gen­ Emery, also bom in England but in 1632. 1636-1896, published in 1896, suggests eral Assembly Incorporated William F. With a group of other pioneer settlers, that Ordway was associated with the Sayles, Frederick C. Sayles and their as­ James Ordway moved to Cocheco (now New York Dyeing and Printing Com­ sociates for the purpose of manufactur­ Dover), New Hampshire, where he pany with offices at 98 Duane Street in ing, bleaching, dyeing, printing and fin­ owned the site where the Cocheco Mills Manhattan and a factory on Staten Island; ishing cotton, woolen and silk goods, and later were built.
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