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Fordyce, Samuel Wesley

soldier, financier, was born Feb. 7, 1840, in Guernsey county, Ohio. He was a private in the civil war, and steadily rose to a captaincy of cavalry. At the close of the war he established the banking house of Fordyce and Rison of Huntsville, Ala.; and is the president of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway company.

FOREPAUGH, JOSEPH LYBRANDT, merchant, was born Jan. 6, 1834, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1865, with Mr. Justice, he established the firm of J. L. Forepaugh and Co. of Philadelphia, Pa., the first exclusively wholesale dry goods house in that state.