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Crawford Livingston, Chauncey Griggs and Their Roles in St Louise and Her Legacy See Books Page 31 Fall, 1999 Volume 34, Number 3 Crawford Livingston, Chauncey Griggs and Their Roles in St. Paul History —Page 4 Crawford Livingston, from a copy of a portrait, and used by permission of Livingston's grand­ daughter, Mary Griggs Burke. RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORY Executive Director ■W" "W" RAMSEY COUNTY Priscilla Famham Editor Virginia Brainard Kunz History RAMSEY COUNTY Volume 34, Number 3 Fall, 1999 HISTORICAL SOCIETY BOARD OF DIRECTORS Laurie A. Zenner CONTENTS Chair Howard M. Guthmann 3 Letters President James Russell 4 “.. .no time or sympathy for one who wouldn’t work” First Vice President Crawford Livingston, Chauncey Griggs and Then- Anne Cowie Wilson Second Vice President Roles in St. Paul History Richard A. Wilhoit John M. Lindley Secretary Ronald J. Zweber 31 Books Treasurer W. Andrew Boss, Peter K. Butler, Charlotte H. Publication of Ramsey County History is supported in part by a gift from Drake, Mark G. Eisenschenk, Joanne A. Eng- Clara M. Claussen and Frieda H. Claussen in memory of Henry H.Cowie, Jr. lund, Robert F. Garland, Judith Frost Lewis, and by a contribution from the late Reuel D. Harmon John M. Lindley, George A. Mairs, Marlene Marschall, Richard T. Murphy, Sr., Bob Olsen, Linda Owen, Fred Perez, Marvin J. Pertzik, Vicenta D. Scarlett, Glenn Wiessner, Charles H. Williams, Jr.. EDITORIAL BOARD Message from Editorial Board John M. Lindley, chair; Thomas H. Boyd, his issue of Ramsey County History brings together the stories of two related, and Thomas C. Buckley, Pat Hart, Virginia Brainard Kunz, Thomas J. Kelley, Tom Mega, Laurie Tyet different, major figures in the history of St. Paul during the late nineteenth and Murphy, Vicenta Scarlett, G. Richard Slade, early twentieth centuries. The are Chauncey Wright Griggs and Crawford Livingston. Laurie Zenner. Griggs came to St. Paul from New England in 1856. Crawford Livingston left New York for Minnesota in 1870, and relocated to St. Paul a few years later. HONORARY ADVISORY BOARD Crawford Livingston was a canny investor who prospered from railroads, utilities, Elmer L. Andersen, Olivia I. Dodge, Charlton Dietz, William Finney, Otis Godfrey, Jr., insurance, and land sales. Chauncey Griggs put his money into supplying coal and Robert S. Hess, Fred T. Lanners, Jr., D. W. wood and into transportation, land sales, the wholesale grocery business and, finally, “Don” Larson, George Latimer, Frank the lumber business. Their habits of hard work and a willingness to seize upon busi­ Marzitelli, Joseph S. Micallef, Robert Mirick, ness opportunities helped both to acquire large personal fortunes. The 1915 marriage Samuel Morgan, Marvin J. Pertzik, J. Jerome of one Livingston daughter with one Griggs son meant that their parents’ stories be­ Plunkett, James Reagan, Rosalie E. Wahl, Donald D. Wozniak. came even more intertwined. Today the names of Chauncey Griggs and Crawford Liv­ ingston live on in St. Paul in the Crawford Livingston Theatre, in streets named for RAMSEY COUNTY COMMISIONERS Griggs and Livingston, and in the Burbank-Livingston-Griggs house still standing on Commissioner Rafael Ortega, chairman Sum m it A venue. Commissioner Susan Haigh Commissioner Tony Bennett John Lindley, who chairs the Ramsey County Historical Society’s Editorial Board, Commissioner Dino Guerin has brought the L ivingston and G riggs careers and their fam ilies to life. H is research on Commissioner Victoria Reinhardt these tw o business leaders is based on work in m ore than twenty archives, libraries, and Commissioner Janice Rettman Commissioner Jan Wiessner manuscript collections in Minnesota and elsewhere. To do this, he has had the help of many people who have provided information and suggestions along the way, particu­ Paul Kirkwold, acting manager, Ramsey larly Tom White of the James J. Hill Reference Library; Jim Sazevich, an independent County historian, researcher, and geneologist of St. Paul; Virginia Brainard Kunz, editor of Ramsey County History is published quar­ Ramsey County History, and Molly Spillman of the Ramsey County Historical Society terly by the Ramsey County Historical Society, 323 Landmark Center, 75 W. Fifth staff. Street, St. Paul, Minn. 55102 (651-222- In addition, this project w ould not have com e to fruition if the author had not had the 0701). Printed in U.S.A. Copyright, 1999, encouragement and support of Patricia Sweney Hart, a Griggs descendant, and Mary Ramsey County Historical Society. ISSN Griggs Burke, a Livingston granddaughter. They have been extraordinarily generous in Number 0485-9758. All rights reserved. No sharing family stories, letters, photos, and ideas about Chauncey Griggs and Crawford part of this publication may be reprinted Livingston because they wanted others to known how these two men helped to shape or otherwise reproduced without written perm ission from the publisher. The Soci­ St. Paul’s history. ety assumes no responsibility for statements made by contributors. Fax 651-223-8539; Priscilla Famham, executive director, Ramsey County Historical Society e-mail address [email protected].; web site address www.rchs.com 2 RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORY “... No Time or Sympathy for One Who Wouldn’t Work” Crawford Livingston, Colonel Chauncey W. Griggs, John M. Lindley n January 18,1912, Crawford Livingston, a successful former St. Paul and after 1888 in the timber industry in railroad entrepreneur and businessman who recently had established a Washington State. Although the Griggs and Livingston Wall Street brokerage house in New York City, wrote to his daughter, families would not be linked until 1915 MaryO Steele Livingston, about his new firm, Livingston & Company. Liv­ when Theodore Wright Griggs, the boys’ ingston’s son, Gerald M., known in the family as Gerry, was the lead partner in uncle, married Mary Steele Livingston, this new financial house, while the firm’s letterhead identified Gerry’s father as these brief comments from two parental a “special partner.” letters written in the second decade of the twentieth century reveal a shared belief The senior Livingston commented You boys have a grand inheritance from in hard work, personal industry, and the first on Mary’s report in her most recent your immediate grandparents on both sides. value of financial endeavors. They also letter to her father that the weather in They were producers, they were workers, help to explain why Crawford Livingston Cable, Wisconsin, where she was stay­ and after all it’s the only kind of life that and Colonel Chauncey Griggs achieved ing, was “quite mild now as it is only 12 brings satisfaction.2 so much in their lifetimes. below zero.” Then he added: The boys’ grandfather, Colonel Gerry is very much pleased with his busi­ Chauncey Wright Griggs (1832-1910), Griggs, Livingston, and ness. They have a very nice office, and so far had come to St. Paul in 1856 where he St. Paul have done very well. I work as hard as any had started in business and took time out While the story of the Griggs and of them, so hard that I do not get my after­ to serve in the Union Army during the Livingston families follows a parallel noon nap any more and have lost 5 pounds Civil War. He then had returned to course through more than fifty of the most in weight.1 Minnesota and St. Paul where he had colorful years in American life, Crawford achieved great financial success, first in Livingston remains an elusive figure in Crawford Livingston was then sixty- supplying wood and coal to Minnesotans, St. Paul history. Chauncey Griggs does four. Because of his wealth, he could then in the wholesale grocery business, not. The roots of both men lay in the have chosen a more relaxed and comfort­ able pace for himself. Apparently he didn’t. His attitude toward life and work was not unique. In another parental letter, dated April 16, 1913, Chauncey Milton Griggs, ten years younger than Crawford Livingston, wrote to his sons, Everett and Ben, the day after their grandmother, Martha Ann Gallup Griggs, died in Tacoma, Washington. His letter is a tribute to his sons’ grandparents, especially their grand­ mother, for her selfless role in supporting her husband and her family through the years that preceded their coming to great wealth. He wrote: Here was a woman who did her share, not only in the acquisition of her family’s capi­ tal, but in helping others to help themselves. The Burbank-Livingston-Griggs house at 432 Summit Avenue, as it looked in the 1880s. It was She had no time or sympathy for one who the home of Crawford Livingston and his family and later of Theodore W. Griggs and his wife, wouldn’t work. Mary Livingston Griggs, Crawford Livingston’s daughter. Minnesota Historical Society photo. 4 RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORY and Their Roles in St. Paul History East, but Livingston’s remained there. Even though he married into one of Minnesota’s pioneer families, and his St. Paul associates included General Henry H. Sibley and many of the city’s more formidable leaders, Livingston lived much of his life in New York. Griggs did not. He put down new roots, first in Minnesota, then on the West Coast. The imprints of both these men, however, still lie on St. Paul, in the Crawford Liv­ ingston Theatre in downtown St. Paul, in the Burbank-Livingston-Griggs mansion that still stands on Summit Avenue, in St. Paul’s Livingston Street, in its Griggs Street, and in the Griggs-Midway Build­ ing on University Avenue. Colonel Chauncey Wright Griggs came from an old New England family. Bom on December 31,1832, in Tolland, Connecti­ cut, he was the son of Captain Chauncey Chauncey Wright Griggs and Martha Ann Gallup Griggs. These photos are used courtesy of Griggs and Heartie Dimock Griggs.
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