Lucius Pond Ordway

His father was a coal and iron dealer and salesman during Ordway's childhood, but by 1883 had become a business executive for the wealthy Sayles family of Rhode Island.

His brother Samuel Hanson Ordway (1860-1934) graduated from Brown University and Harvard Law School and became a prominent New York City lawyer and civil service reformer; he married painter Frances Hunt Throop in 1894.

[4] But his most significant investment was the money that he put into the infant and seemingly ill-fated Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, now known as 3M.

Katherine Ordway studied botany and late in her life gave millions of dollars to purchase and preserve undeveloped land, principally Midwestern prairies.

[9] The Ordways' first home, at 257 Summit Avenue in St. Paul, was designed by architect Cass Gilbert, a personal friend of Lucius'.

He owned a Gus Amundson 20-foot boat named "Mahto" with which he won that division in the 1898 Inland Lake Yachting Association Regatta.