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President, C. T. Pidgeon Millinery Company
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Pidgeon, son of the Rev. John M. Pidgeon, a Society of Friends minister, attended Earlham College, taught two years, and served four years in the railway mail service before joining the wholesale millinery house of Adams and Armstrong on Calhoun Street in January 1888. He was admitted to partnership on 1 July 1893, the firm becoming James A. Armstrong & Company, and on 1 January 1901 he bought out his associates and renamed it the C. T. Pidgeon Millinery Company, serving as president; he was also treasurer of the C. T. Pidgeon Realty Company. He married Maude B. Keplinger of Fort Wayne on 21 November 1900.
Sources: Griswold, Pictorial History, Vol. II (1917), biographical sketch and portrait, read first-hand. No second source reached for this profile.