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Albert & Louise Ordean Albert & Louise Ordean The Founders of the Ordean Foundation LBERT ORDEAN LIVED A STORIED LIFE, yet following his death he was described as Aa “man nobody seemed to know” who could appear “cold and indifferent” to those who were not acquainted with him. After a legendary start in banking among the lawless mining camps of Colorado, he would move to Duluth, Minnesota, and become a suc- cessful businessman and banker, friend of presidents and business tycoons, so revered and trusted he was called upon to save the grain industry when the nation underwent a financial panic. In private life, he and his wife Louise gave generously to myriad social causes, most often those supporting children and the poor. In Duluth, they would come to personify the idea of noblesse oblige, a spirit that lives on today through the work of the Ordean Foundation. ORDEAN’S EARLY LIFE FROM CANTON, OHIO, LBERT LEGRAND ORDEAN TO COLORADO A(1856–1928) was the third RDEAN’S BIOGRAPHERS ALL and youngest child of Ostate that he began DeRock (1833–1866) and working in banking “as Martha Shovier Ordean a boy,” and an 1877 letter (1833–1909), born on Au- indicates that he found gust 22, 1856, in Crawford employment with the Sav- County, Pennsylvania (al- ings Deposit Bank of Isaac though some biographies Harter & Sons in Canton in give his birthplace as New 1874 when we was seventeen Brighton, which is in Bea- or eighteen years old. By the ver County, Pennsylvania). time Ordean first went west By the time Albert arrived, in 1877, at the age of twenty- his sister, Ida (1853-1911), was one, he and associate M. G. three years old and his brother, Huntington had already earned Clifford (1854–1912), barely two. solid reputations and “each occu- What DeRock did to support his pied high positions of trust in promi- young family is unknown, and even his nent business establishments of this city and birthplace remains unclear. While records sug- enjoy the entire confidence of all by whom they gest he emigrated from Canada—and his surname are known,” according to the Canton Repository. is of French origin, perhaps French-Canadian— The newspaper was reporting that the pair had Albert lists both his parents as being born in Penn- decided to open a bank in Hays, Kansas, a plan sylvania in the 1880 census. they did not carry out. That October the Repository By 1852 DeRock was indeed living in Pennsyl- announced Ordean had taken a job as a cashier at vania, where he wed Martha Shovier, a native of a bank in Abeline, Kansas. Back then a cashier had Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The family appar- much more responsibility than a bank teller does ently moved between Crawford and Beaver coun- today—the cashier served as a bank’s chief execu- ties until DeRock died in 1866. By 1870 Martha had tive. The paper called Ordean “one of our best and moved her family—thirteen-year-old Ida, twelve- most promising young men.” year-old Clifford, and ten-year-old Albert—to Can- The following February Ordean left Kansas for ton, Ohio, where she found work as a dressmaker. an opportunity with Isaac Harter Jr., son of his for- She passed the skill on to her daughter, and in 1877 mer employer, who planned to open a new bank Ida advertised in the Stark County Democrat that in Carbonate, Colorado. Their investors included she was looking for “three or four good girls to owners of a bank in nearby Leadville, Colorado. learn dressmaking,” which she taught out of the Ordean moved to Carbonate to begin the enter- family home at No. 31 Tenth Street in Canton. prise, but a month later the paper stated Ordean, Harter, and others planned to open the Summit Above: County Bank in the brand new mining town of Photo of Albert Ordean from the 1902 book Men of Minnesota. Kokomo, also not far from Leadville. A year later, [Zenith City Press] in July 1879, he was thrust into another role, that albert & louise ordean — 2 — the founders of the ordean foundation of the Assistant Cashier of the First National Bank the train station in Denver to Leadville, then of Leadville. He rented a room in Emma F. Thom- fraught with the “rush, confusion and dangers of son’s boarding house. a booming Rocky Mountain mining camp.” Its That summer a visitor from Canton wrote first marshal had been run out of town a few days the Repository with his description of the bustling after he was appointed, and less than a month mining town of Leadville. There, he wrote, young later his replacement was shot dead by one of his Albert Ordean was considered suaviter in modo— deputies. Finding no express company willing to one known for doing what needs to be done “with transport that amount of money, Ordean took on unflinching firmness,” at the same time conduct- the task himself. ing his business “in the most inoffensive manner He’d have to take a stagecoach, which were possible.” often held up by highwaymen in the lawless terri- By the time Ordean arrived, Leadville— tory. A well-dressed banker with a satchel contain- founded as Oro in 1859 during the Pike’s Peak Gold ing $50,000 would be hard for bandits to miss, so Rush—had already been stripped of its gold, but Ordean disguised himself. He changed his suit the heavy black sand that had hampered early for miner’s denim and stuffed a simple pack with mining efforts was found to be rich in silver and shirts, pants, and socks, which were in turn stuffed lead. In 1877—just as the Colorado Silver Boom with cash. He tucked a pistol under his coat and began—the community was incorporated as Lead- boarded the stage; for all his fellow passengers ville. It was there that one legend of Ordean was knew, Ordean was just another young man come forged, a tale that perhaps helps us understand west hoping to strike it rich prospecting for silver. why he was a man of few words and how he be- When the coach stopped in Fairplay for the came suaviter in modo. night and passengers took shelter at the Traveler’s Hotel, Ordean decided against a private room: the LEADVILLE, COLORADO expense would have drawn suspicion. Instead he N JANUARY 1926 SKILLINGS MINING REVIEW first shared a room with five other boarders using the Iprinted a story about the young Ordean that cash-laden pack for a pillow—but he never let would come to define his early life. In 1879 Or- himself sleep, staying awake through the night dean was asked to transport $50,000 in cash— with his pistol nearby. Keeping a low profile—and worth over $1.4 million dollars in 2019—from his mouth shut—Ordean and the cash made it to Leadville without incident. The silence Ordean em- ployed to keep his secret likely cultivated within him the wis- dom of speaking only when nec- essary. Perhaps this stoic nature created the impression that he was cold. Left: Postcard of Leadville, Colorado, made from a photograph taken in 1880. [Zenith City Press] albert & louise ordean — 3 — the founders of the ordean foundation $3.5 million in 2019). By 1870 Isaac Harter Senior’s personal estate was valued at $18,000 ($361,000) and he owned real estate holdings worth $100,000 ($2 million). When Isaac Harter Sr. died in 1876, the Reposi- tory reported that the news of his death left the community “shocked and pained,” and that the city had lost “one of its oldest and most respected citizens…. Everyone felt that in Mr. Harter they had a friend.” He was honored for his reputation as “an honest, able, and substantial businessman” and one of Canton’s “best citizens” who helped make Canton a “safe, stable, and prosperous city.” “It is not easy to overvalue the importance as such men” as Isaac Harter, the newspaper stated. “He was liberal and courteous, the poor man, the farm- er, the laborer had the same kind word and treat- ment from him as the rich.” When he died, Eliza Louise and her siblings all became shareholders in the family bank. MEANWHILE, BACK IN CANTON Albert Ordean had gone west within a year of OUISE HARTER (1857–1932) DIDN’T THINK Albert his Isaac Senior’s death. While he was becoming LOrdean was cold. Born Eliza Louise Harter in an integral cog in Isaac Junior’s Colorado banking Canton, Ohio, on December 17, 1857, Louise was the machine, Eliza Louise remained at home in Canton, youngest of eleven children born to Ohio native living in her mother’s house. By 1880, when she was Isaac Richard Harter Sr. (1811–1876) and Amanda twenty-three, she had dropped “Eliza,” preferring to Zenbia Moore (1815–1895). Native Pennsylvanian go by her middle name. Louise and Albert Ordean Isaac Harter had, according to one eulogist, made a had undoubtedly met when both were younger. In success of himself through “honest, thorough and 1881 Albert was still in Colorado, but that December persistent industry to competence.” In 1854 he es- he returned to Canton to spend the winter. tablished the Savings Deposit Bank of Isaac Harter Perhaps this was when the two began a court- & Sons. Twelve years later his sons George D. and ship. Ordean was certainly known and trusted by Michael D. opened Canton’s Geo. D. Harter & Bro. Louise’s family, and perhaps she recognized many Bank. Isaac Sr. also operated a successful whole- of her father’s qualities in the impressive young sale grocery business, handling about $150,000 in man from Pennsylvania.
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