Scope and Content Note Correspondence and related records created, received, or collected by Arkansas manufacturer, entrepreneur, amateur historian, soldier, engineer, and inventor John Rison Fordyce. Records pertain primarily to Fordyce’s personal, familial, business, military, and avocational interests and activities and incidentally to his professional activities. Principal areas to which records relate include: Fordyce family genealogy; the college education of Fordyce’s son, Edward Winfield;...