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Rh FORD, Philip, English merchant, d. about 1707. He was a Quaker, and was for several years William Penn's agent in London. Penn, becoming financially embarrassed, signed a deed of sale of his province to Ford, and took from him a lease for three years. Penn afterward paid him £17.000, but Ford claimed that £10,500 more were due him, and his son and widow arrested Penn in January, 1708. To avoid their extortion, Penn put himself within the limits of Fleet prison, and the Fords unsuccessfully petitioned the queen to put them in possession of Pennsylvania, at the same time offering to sell it to Isaac Norris for £8,000. Penn afterward lost his case in the court of chancery.

FORD, Samuel Howard, clergyman, b. in Mis- souri in 1833. Pie was educated at the University of Missouri, in 1843 was ordained to the Baptist ministry and became pastor in Jefferson City, Mo., and was afterward connected with churches in St. Louis and Cape Giradeau, Md., and Louisville, Ky. In 1853 he became associated in the editorship of the " Western Recorder" and "Christian Reposi- tory." At the beginning of the civil war he re- moved to Memphis, Tenn., and in 1864 was pastor of the St. Francis street Baptist church in Mobile, Ala. He then returned to Memphis, and was pas- tor there till failing health compelled his resigna- tion in 1873. He now (1887) resides in St. Louis. — His wife, Sally Rochester, author, b. in Roches- ter Springs, Boyle co., Ky., in 1828. Her maiden name was Rochester. She was graduated at the female seminary in Georgetown, Ky., in 1.849, and in 1855 married Mr. Ford, with whom she has edit- ed " The Christian Repository " and " The Home Circle " since that date. Mrs. Ford is president of the Woman's missionary society of the south. She has published "Grace Truman" (New York, 1857); "i\Iiiry Bunyan " (1859) ; "Morgan and his Men" (Mobile, Ala"., and New York, 1864) ; and " Ernest Quest" (New York, 1877).

FORD, Seabury, governor of Ohio, b. in Cheshire, Conn., 15 Oct., 1801; d. in Burton, Ohio, 8 May, 1855. He removed to Burton when a boy, after his graduation at Yale in 1825 practised law in that town. He was in the Ohio legislature most of the time from 1830 till 1847, was presiding officer, at different times, of both of it branches, and was also at one time major-general of militia. He was elected governor of the state in 1848, and served in 1849-'50. Immediately after the expiration of his term he had a paralytic shock, from the effects of which he died. He was an ardent friend of , and was instrumental in carrying the state of Ohio for him in 1844.

FORD, Thomas, governor of Illinois, d. in Peoria, 111., in January, 1851. His parents emi- grated to Illinois in 1804, when he was a child, and he became- a successful lawyer there, and was ac- tive in politics almost from the organization of the state. He was judge of the state supreme court, and governor in 1842-'6. He published a " History of Illinois from 1818 to 1847" (Chicago, 1854).

FORD, Timothy, lawyer, b. in Morristown, N. J., 4 Dec, 1762 ; d. 7 Dec, 1830. His family residence was used by Washington as his head- quarters in 1777. In 1780 he volunteered in a company of Washington's body-guards, and was wounded in a brief action at Springfield, N. J. He was graduated at Princeton in 1783, studied law in New York, and then removed to South Carolina, where he became eminent, practising for many years only in the Equity court. He was a member of the legislature and the Charleston city council, a trustee of Charleston college, president of various literary societies, and a founder of the Charleston Bible society. — His brother, Gabriel Hogarth, jurist, b. in Morristown, N. J., 3 Jan., 1765; d. there, 27 Aug., 1849, was graduated at Princeton in 1784, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in May, 1789. He became presiding judge of the court of common pleas for the eastern district of the state, and in 1820-'40 was a justice of the supreme court. — Gabriel Hogarth's son, Lewis de Saussure, physician, b. in Morristown, N. J., 30 Dec, 1801 ; d.'in Augusta, Ga., 21 Aug., 1883, was graduated in medicine at the college of physicians and surgeons. New York city, in 1822, and in the same year remove* to Hamburg, S. C. He went to Augusta, Ga., in 1827, and assisted in organizing there the Medical college of Georgia, in which he afterward held the chairs of chemistry and practice of medicine. He was a surgeon in the C^onfederate army from 1861 till the end of the civil war, and had charge of hospitals in Richmond and elsewhere. He was twice mayor of Augusta. The University of Georgia gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1868. Dr. Ford contributed many valuable essays on par- oxysmal fevers to the " Southern Medical and Sur- gical Journal " in 1836-'45.

FORD, William Henry, physician, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 7 Oct., 1839. He was graduated at Princeton in 1857, and at Jefferson medical college, Philadelphia, in 1860, and in 1862 was appointed an acting medical cadet in the U. S. army. He became assistant surgeon of the 44th Pennsylvania regiment in 1863, was soon afterward promoted to surgeon, and served until after the battle of Gettysburg. He studied in Europe in 1865-'8, was an editor of the Philadelphia " Medical Times " in 1870-'l, assistant demonstrator in the Philadelphia school of anatomy in 1869-'71, and compiler of vital statistics for the city in 1872-'5. He was chairman of the Centennial medical commission's committee on sanitary science in 1876, and a member of the Philadelphia board of health in 1871-'87, serving as its secretary in 187o-'7 and as its presi- dent in 1877-'9 and 1886-'7. He is a meniljer of numei'ous medical and charitable societies, and has contributed to medical journals, principally on sanitary subjects. He is the author of the treatise on " Soil and Water " in Buck's " Hygiene and Public Health" (New York, 1879), and of "Healthy Dwelling-Houses, and how to Build, Drain, and Ventilate them " (Philadelphia, 1885).

FOREMAN, Stephen, clergyman, b. in Oo-you-gilogie, near Rome, Ga., 22 Oct., 1807 ; d. in Park Hill, Indian Territory, 8 Dec, 1881, His mother was a full-blooded Cherokee, his father white. His first teaching was in the mission-school, and he afterward spent a year and a half at Union seminary. He spent one year, 1831-2, at Princeton, then two years in the theological department of Marysville college, Tenn., was licensed by Union presbytery, Tenn., in September, 1833, and two years later ordained as an evangelist. From 1834 till 1838 he labored among his people at Candy's Creek church. In the latter year his nation was compelled to remove to Arkansas, where he followed them and served as their pastor until the beginning of the civil war, when he became missionary in Texas, then returned to his former home among his people, where he lived for the remainder of his life. He was in part supported by the American board of commissioners for foreign missions, and during the last years of his life built a church out of his funds, and preached in it.

FORESTI, Eleutario Felice, Italian patriot, b. in Conselice, near Ferrara, Italy, in 1793; d. in Genoa, Italy, 14 Sept., 1858. He was graduated at the University of Bologna, studied law, and