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500 in 1862-'3, took part in the siege of Vieksburg, and on 11 Aug., 1863, was made brigadier-general of volunteers. He was witii Sherman in his At- lanta campaign and his march to the sea, was bre- vetted major-general of volunteers, 13 March, 1865, and commanded a district in Mississippi till he was mustered out of service, 11 Jan., 1866. He was judge of the court of common pleas of Hamil- ton county, Ohio, in 1867-'77, and judge of the superior court of Cincinnati from that year till 1887. He has published " From Fort Henry to Corinth," being vol. ii. of " Campaigns of the Civil War" (New York, 1881). and several pamphlets, mostly historical, inclucfing " Prehistoric Man," '* Darwinism and Deity," " The Mound-Builders " (Cincinnati, 1873); "Some Early Notices of Ohio Indians "; " To What Race did the Mound-Build- ers belong?" (1879); "'Marching across Carolina" (1883); '"Personal Recollections of the Vieksburg Campaign" (1885); "Letters of Amerigo Vespuc- ci," an address delivered before the Ohio historical and philosophical society (1885); and " Sketch of the Life of Justice John IMcLean " (Cambridge, 1885). He has edited Walker's " Introduction to American Law " (Boston, 1878) and Harris's " Prin- ciples of Criminal Law" (Cincinnati, 1880).

FORD, Corydon La, physician, b. in Lexing- ton, Greene co., N. Y.. 29 Aug., 1813; d. 14 April, 1894. He removed to Otsego county in 1815, and, after attending Canandaigua academy and study- ing with several physicians, entered Geneva medi- cal college, where he was graduated in 1843. He was demonstrator of anatomy there in 1842-'8, and in Buffalo medical college in 1847-"51, professor of anatomy in Castleton, Vt., medical college in 1849-61, and of anatomy and physiology in Berk- shire medical institution, Pittsfield, Mass., in 1860-'7. He held the same chair in the Bowdoin college medical school in 1864-'70, and in 1854 ac- cepted the chair of anatomy in the University of Michigan, to which that of physiology was added in 1860. In 188-'86 he also lectured annually in Long Island college hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y., and in the latter year became professor emeritus in that institution. Michigan university gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1881. Dr. Ford was considered one of the ablest teachers of anatomy in the coun- try, and is the author of '" Questions on Anatomy, Histology, and Physiology, for the use of Students " (last ed., Ann Arbor, 1878); "Syllabus of Lectures on Odontology, Human and Comparative " (1884); and " Questions on the Structure and Development of the Human Teeth " (1885).

FORD, Edward Lloyd, publisher, b. in Oswestry, Shropshire, England, 10 March, 1845; d. in Morristown, N. J., 16 Dec., 1880. He came to New York in early youth, and studied for a few years under Prof. J. H. Patton. He enlisted in the 99th regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers in 1861, and within a year was promoted to a lieutenancy, and detailed on Gen. Meade's staff. He was taken prisoner at Chancellorsville, 2 May, 1863, and sent to Libby prison, Richmond, but was exchanged early in the September following, and returned to his post of duty. In 1863 he was discharged from the volunteer service, promoted to a captaincy on the staff of Gen. Birney, and served in the 10th army corps. Broken health forced him to leave the army in December, 1864. In 1867 he became a partner in the newly established publishing-house of J. B. Ford &amp; Co., and, by his business ability and fertility of invention, contributed largely to the success of the &ldquo;Christian Union.&rdquo; He had a genius for mechanics, and made many improvements in printing, notably in devices for the rapid

delivery of sheets from a printing-machine. He invented and patented folding combinations, folding and pasting apparatus, and devices for printing two sheets simultaneously, and for folding and pasting one within the other.

FORD, Gordon Lester, lawyer, b. in Lebanon, Conn., 16 Dec, 1823; d. in Brooklyn, N. Y"., 14 Nov., 1891. He was admitted to practice in 1850, and was chosen president of the New London, Wil- limantic and Palmer railroad company. In 1869 he received the appointment of collector of U. S. internal i-evenue in Brooklyn, N. Y. From 1873 till 1881 he was the business manager of the New York " Tribune," and in 1883 became president of the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island railroad. — His son, Wortliiiigton Cliauncey, author, b. in Brooklyn, N. Y., 16 Feb.. 1858, pre|)ared an edition of Wells's "Natural Philosopliy," compiled the " American Citizen's Manual " (New York, 1883), "The Standard Silver Dollar " (1884). and edited " Writings of George Washington " (14 vols., 1889- '93). In September, 1885, he became chief of the bureau of statistics in the department of state at Washington, D. C. — Another son, Paul Leicester, b. in Brooklyn, N. Y.. 23 March, 1865, has pub- lished ••P>ibliotheea Ilamiltonia" (Brooklyn, 1867); "Franklin Bibliography" (1889); "Writings of John Dickinson" (1895), in progress; also " Writ- ings of Thomas Jefferson," vols, i-viii (1892-'7), in progress; "The New England Primer; a History of its Origin and Development " (1897); also a novel which had great success, entitled "The Honorable Peter Stirling" (1894); and "The True George Washington" (Philadelphia. 1896). The two brothers have also compiled, edited, or writ- ten about twenty-five volumes and monographs for the Historical printing club.

FORD, John Thomson, b. in Baltimore, Md., 16 April, 1829; d. there, 14 March, 1894. In 1852 he became manager of a minstrel troupe, and was afterward manager of the old Richmond, Va., thea- tre and the Holliday street theatre, Baltimore, which he twice rebuilt. In 1858 he was elected president of the city council, and for two years was acting mayor. He also built three theatres in Washington, D. C., including Ford's theatre, of which he was the manager at the time of President Lincoln's assas- sination. He was arrested on suspicion of com- plicity in that crime, but, after being detained forty days in Carroll prison, was released, as there was not the slightest evidence against him. Later he was manager of various theatres. Mr. Ford was the first to bring Mary Anderson into public notice. He was a state director of the Maryland peniten- tiary for eighteen years, and also active in philan- thropic work in Baltimore. He contributed fre- quently to the periodical press.

FORD, Joshua Edwards, missionary, b. in Ogdensburg, N. Y., 3 Aug., 1825; d. in Geneseo, N. Y., 3 April, 1866. He was graduated at Williams in 1844, and at Union theological seminary. New York, in 1847, and in that year sailed for Syria, under the auspices of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions. His first station was at Aleppo, where he was also forwarding-agent, postmaster, and banker for several other stations. He spent six months there, and when the Turkish mission was formed was transferied to Beirut, where he remained for four years, and then removed to Sidon. He went to England in 1861 to present the claims of the Syrian missions, and in 1865 returned to the United States on account of illness in his family. He edited several books in the Arabic language, and wrote a work in that tongue, entitled " Fasting and Prayer."