Biography Of Samuel Wesley Fordyce
…the matter of railroad building and management, he nevertheless found time for cooperation with many other business interests and in fact was the promoter of various projects which were of greatest benefit in the development and upbuilding of the Mississippi Louis Union Trust Company and represented the directors of the Laclede Light & Power Company of St. Louis and the Jefferson Hotel Company. He was vice president of the Arlington and New York Hotel Companies of Hot Springs, Arkansas, was president of the Hot Springs Electric Street Railway Company. He was a director of the Illinois, Indiana & Minnesota Railroad,…