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Companies, president of the Hot Springs Water, Gas, and Electric Light Companies, president of the Hot Springs Electric Street Railway Company, director of the Illinois, Indiana & Minnesota Railroad, director of the Apalachicola & Northern, director of the Kansas City Southern, director of the Little Rock & Hot Springs Western, chairman of the executive committee of the St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico, and director in the American Rio Grande Land & Irrigation Company of Texas, the largest irrigating canal system in the United States. Fordyce was also elected, by unanimous vote of all lines in the Southwestern Traffic Association, as chairman of its executive board. The association represented almost all traffic from the Atlantic west to the Mississippi, to California, and to old Mexico.
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He was also a delegate to the state judicial convention in 1884, member of the democratic national committee of
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Fordyce married Susan E. Chadick on May 1, 1866. Susan was the daughter of
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Aside from his work in the transportation industry, Fordyce held a number of other prominent positions including director and organizer of the St. Louis Union Trust
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in introducing a bill to build an Army and Navy Hospital on government reservation land in Hot Springs. Fordyce also helped to finance hotels, an opera house, water, gas and electric light works, street railcars, and other public enterprises.
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