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Memorial

Fordyce Ely 1898–1968

Dr. Fordyce Ely, 3440 Olentangy River Rd., Columbus, Ohio, passed away November 21 following a brief illness. Professor Ely was Chairman of the Dairy Science Department at The Ohio State University and the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center from 1948 to his retirement in 1963. Fordyce Ely was born January 25, 1898, at St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, and married Dikka Hillestad on August 11, 1923. He attended Central High School in St. Paul, Minnesota, and entered the University of Minnesota in 1915 where he received the Bachelor of Science degree in 1919. After experience on dairy farms and as fieldman for the Twin Cities Milk Producers Association, he enrolled at Iowa State College where he received the Master of Science degree in 1921. From 1921 to 1928 he remained on the faculty at Iowa State College where he attained the rank of Associate Professor. In 1928 he became Professor in charge of the Dairy Section at the University of Kentucky.