Industrialist. Soon after the Civil War, Fordyce established the bank Fordyce & Rison in Huntsville, Alabama. Ten year later, he got involved with the railroads. He helped reorganized the St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company in 1885 & was named its president. He is credited with constructing over 24,000 miles of railroad tracks throughout Missouri & Arkansas. He became director of the St. Louis Union Trust Company & founded one of the largest health resorts in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Good friends with Presidents McKinley & Grant, Fordyce became active in Democratic politics in Arkansas & Alabama.
Industrialist. Soon after the Civil War, Fordyce established the bank Fordyce & Rison in Huntsville, Alabama. Ten year later, he got involved with the railroads. He helped reorganized the St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company in 1885 & was named its president. He is credited with constructing over 24,000 miles of railroad tracks throughout Missouri & Arkansas. He became director of the St. Louis Union Trust Company & founded one of the largest health resorts in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Good friends with Presidents McKinley & Grant, Fordyce became active in Democratic politics in Arkansas & Alabama.
Bio by: Connie Nisinger
Family Members
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John Fordyce
1808–1882
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Mary Ann Houseman Fordyce
1817–1899
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Susan Elizabeth Chadick Fordyce
1842–1935 (m. 1866)
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James H Fordyce
1838–1842
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Ruth Amanda Fordyce Baker
1842–1907
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William H Fordyce
1844–1844
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Justus C Fordyce
1845–1846
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Homer Garand Fordyce
1847–1907
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Thomas M Fordyce
1851–1856
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Sarah A Fordyce
1853–1856
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John Addison Fordyce
1858–1925
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Mary Alice Fordyce
1867–1869
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John Rison Fordyce
1869–1939
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William Chadick Fordyce
1873–1966
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Jane Dorothy Fordyce Stanley
1875–1939
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Samuel Wesley Fordyce
1877–1948
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