Lewis Fordyce 1820-1912

FORDYCE

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Date: 6/14/2009 at 21:19:52

LEWIS FORDYCE was born in Wabash county, Illinois, November 5, 1820; he died at his home near Libertyville, March 24, 1912. He came with his parents to Iowa when a youth of seventeen, and assisted his father in developing a farm in Lee county. In 1849 he moved to Van Buren county, residing there until 1873 when he secured a large farm in Jefferson county and made his home there. For thirty-five years in his early life he was engaged in the ministry, extending his labors throughout Missouri and southeastern Iowa, and for the same number of years was secretary of the State Association of the Christian Church. He was one of the organizers of the Republican party in Van Buren county, and represented that county in the Fourth General Assembly. He also occupied a seat in the Twentieth General Assembly as a Representative from Jefferson county.

- "Notable Deaths" Annals of Iowa. Vol. XI, No. 4. p. 239. Historical Society of Iowa. Des Moines. January, 1914.