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Colonel Frederick
Ira Ordway, Jr.
1894 - 1974
Frederick Ira Ordway, Jr., the son of Frederick Ira Ordway
and Grace Lincoln Shannon, was born in Melrose, MA on
August 15, 1894. He married Frances Antoinette Wright in
Forest Hills, NY on June 15, 1922. They had one son,
Frederick Ira Ordway, III. Col. Ordway married his second
wife, Mary Dolores Godwin, in Portsmouth, NH on December
12, 1952. Col. Ordway died in Washington, DC on August 6,
1974.
Col.
Ordway was educated at
Pinkerton
Academy
in Derry and
Phillips
Exeter Academy
in Exeter, NH. He received his Bachelors Degree from the
University of
New Hampshire
in Durham in 1920, followed by graduate work in corporate
law at Fordham University in New York City.
His
career in the military began on May 15, 1917 at
Plattsburg, NY at the 1st Officers Training
Camp. While serving with the 1st Troop of New
England Calvary at Plattsburg, he pursued his interest in
aviation. On June 15 1917, he was among twenty-five
officer candidates selected for flying training with the
Royal Flying Corps in Canada. After ground school at the
University of Toronto and advanced training at Camp
Borden, Cadet Ordway eventually joined the 1st
Pursuit Group at the Front near Toul, France. Lieut.
Ordway was transferred in June of 1918 to the 94th
Squadron, First Pursuit Group, American Expeditionary
Force commanded by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker. During
that time he participated in the Marne Offensive and the
Verdun Drive, which ended the war. Following the
Armistice, Lieut. Ordway served with the Air Service
History Board in Tours until his return to the United
States in the spring of 1919. While in business in New
York City, Mr. Ordway served for two years in the Squadron
"A" Cavalry, New York National Guard.
In the
inter-war period, he worked with the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York and with Blyth & Company investment bankers,
one of the leading underwriters in the United States in
domestic and foreign securities and in all phases of
international banking. From 1929 until 1941 he managed the
Bond Department of Cassatt & Company and later joined
Wortham & North, investment counsel. He was cited in 1939
by the President of the New York Stock Exchange as one of
the leaders in the preparation and analysis of corporation
statements.
In
June of 1941, Major Ordway was called to active duty as
Executive Officer to Major General Oliver P. Echols,
Assistant Chief of Staff, Headquarters Material Command in
Washington. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in the
spring of 1942 and was transferred to the U. S. Ninth Air
Force in Cairo as liaison office with the Headquarter of
the Royal Air Force. During that time, Lt. Col. Ordway
was stationed in Cairo, Egypt, Algiers, and Naples,
Italy. After the War ended in 1945, he was promoted to
Colonel and continued on active duty in various capacities
with the Office of the Foreign Liquidation Commissioner.
In his
retirement, Col. Ordway devoted most of his time to the
hereditary, patriotic and historical societies of the
United States.
Memberships
* Society of the Cincinnati in the State of
Massachusetts
* Order of the Founders and Patriots of America (former
Councilor General;
former of Governor of the Washington, D.C. Society)
* General Society of Colonial Wars (former
Deputy Governor General and
Registrar of Washington, D.C. Society)
* General Society of the War of 1812
(former Registrar General)
* National Huguenot Society (former
Curator General)
* Hereditary Order of Descendants of Loyalists and
Patriots of the American
Revolution (former Governor General)
* Huguenot Society of Washington, D.C. (former Treasurer)
* General Society of Mayflower Descendants
(former Deputy Governor
General; former Governor of the Washington D.C.
Society)
* Piscataqua Pioneers (former Vice President)
* Society of Descendants of Knights of the
Most Noble Order of the Garter
* Hereditary Order of Descendants of
Colonial Governors
* Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States
of America
* Baronial Order of Magna Charta
* Military Order of the Crusades
* General Society Sons of the Revolution
* National Society Sons of the American Revolution (former
Librarian
Washington, D.C. Society)
* Sons and Daughters of the First Settlers of Newbury,
Massachusetts
* Flagon and Trencher
* Huguenot Society of London
Col.
Ordway edited and published numerous volumes for the
hereditary societies, including the
1967
Register of the Society of Colonial Wars, D.C.,
the
1970
Register of Mayflower Descendants, D.C.,
the
1971
Register of the General Society of the War of 1812
and the
1963-1971 Proceedings of the National Huguenot Society.
Col. Ordway also served on the editorial committee of the
1972, 1973 and 1974 editions of the
Hereditary Register of the United States of America.
Chivalric Orders
The Sovereign Military Order of the
Temple of Jerusalem, Knight Chevalier and
former
Secretary of the Priory of St. King Charles the Martyr of
Washington, D.C.
Other Notes
Col. Ordway was always an avid sportsman,
horseback riding, skiing and especially tennis being his
favorites. He was a member of the Longwood Cricket Club;
West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills; American Yacht Club,
Rye; University Club of Washington, D.C.; Badminton and
Tennis Club, Boston; Army Navy Country Club, Washington;
Gazira Sporting Club, Cairo; Racquet Club d'Algiers;
Circulo Nautico Giovenese, Naples and the Kenwood Golf &
Country Club, Washington.
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