Background
Fordyce, John Addison was born on February 16, 1858 in Guernsey Company, Ohio, United States. Son of John and Mary A. Fordyce.
Fordyce, John Addison was born on February 16, 1858 in Guernsey Company, Ohio, United States. Son of John and Mary A. Fordyce.
Brother of Samuel Wesley F. Bachelor of Arts, Adrian College, 1878, Master of Arts, 1889 (honorary Doctor of Philosophy, 1901). Doctor of Medicine Chicago Medical College, 1881, University of Berlin, 1888.
Fordyce graduated in 1881 with a degree in Medicine from the Chicago Medical College. He began his career in Hot Springs, Arkansas, but would travel to Europe in 1886. There he studied dermatology in Vienna and Paris.
He returned to the States and settled down in New York, where he was a specialist in dermatology and syphilis.
From 1889 to 1893 he taught at the New York Polyclinic, and later he served as a professor at the Bellevue Hospital College and the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Married Alice Dean Smith, June 29, 1886.