Samuel H. Ordway Jr.

His uncle Lucius Pond Ordway (1862-1948) was a wealthy Minnesota businessman, an early backer and president of 3M.

He was asked to help draft the civil service provisions for the new New York City charter which was approved in 1936, and was appointed as a New York City Civil Service Commissioner by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia.

He then served briefly as president of the National Civil Service League before he was activated as a member of the Naval Reserve.

Ordway went on to publish another short work on conservation in 1953, "Resources and the American dream, including a theory of the limit of growth", and a longer one, "Prosperity Beyond Tomorrow", in 1956.

The first tract of land purchased, 7,600 acres of prairie near Leola, South Dakota, is now known as the Samuel H. Ordway Jr. Memorial Preserve.