

Dandy was first associated with the Brockway Motor Truck Company of Utica. He disposed of his interests, however, to serve the government as an instructor in automobile training schools during the period of the World war.įollowing his arrival in Oneida county in 1919, Mr. Lawrence county, New York, while in the following year he opened a small garage at Potsdam, in the same county, where he developed an enterprise of extensive proportions and also built up a successful wholesale business in automobile accessories. It was in 1914 that he embarked in the automobile business with the Cadillac Motor Company at Ogdensburg, St.

Through the three succeeding years, as the representative of several large furniture manufacturing concerns of Grand Rapids, Michigan, he opened and developed territory all over the United States, manifesting exceptional ability as a salesman and organizer. He gained his initial experience in the business world as salesman with the Yawman & Erbe Manufacturing company of Rochester, which he represented in that city and in Chicago as salesman and system expert during the years 19. In the acquirement of an education James Leslie Dandy attended the grade and high schools of Canton and Ogdensburg, in his native county, and subsequently pursued a course of study in a business college of Rochester, New York. Lawrence county, New York, on the 16th of October, 1890, his parents being Joseph Henry and Julia Sophelia (Teuton) Dandy, who still reside at that place. James Leslie Dandy, a prominent and prosperous young representative of the automobile business in Utica, is the president of the Mohawk Valley Motors, Incorporated, which he organized in 1920.

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