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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Ford, John Thomson, theatrical managphilanthropist, was born April 16, 1839, in Baltimore, Md. He has been a state director of the Maryland penitentiary for eighteen years; and was active in philanthropic work in Baltimore. He died March 14, 1894, in Baltimore, Md. Ford, Lewis De Saussiire, army surgeon, was born Dec. 30, 1801, in Morristown, N.J. He was a surgeon in the confederate army, in the civil war, and had charge of hospier,

Richmond and elsewhere. He contributed many valuable essays on paroxysmal fevers to the Southern Medical and Surgical Journal in 1836-45. He died Aug. 21, 1883, in Augusta, Ga. Ford, Mary Hanford, lecturer, author, was born in 1856 in Meadville, Pa. She is author of Otto's Inspiration; and The Message of the Mystic. Ford, Melbourne H., lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born June 30, 1849, in Saline, Mich. He was oflBcial stenographer of several Michigan courts; was a member of the Michigan state legislature in 1885-86; and in 1887-89 he was a representative to the fiftieth congress as a democrat. He died Apr. 21, 1891, in Grand Rapids, Mich. Ford, Nicholas, merchant, congressman, was bom in Ireland. He emigrated to the United States in 1848; settled in Buchanan county. Mo.; and in 1879-83 he was a representative from Missouri to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses. Ha- died June 18, 1897, in St. Joseph, Mo. Ford, Paul Leicester, bibliographer, author, was bom March 23, 1865, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was the 'author of Bibliotheca Hamiltonia; Franklin Bibliography; The Honorable Peter Stirling, a novel of New York society; The True George Washington;

tals in

The Great K. & A. Train Robbery; The Story of an Untold Love; Honors are Easy; and Janice Meredith.

He

died

May

8,

1902,

in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Ford,

Joshua Edwards, missionary, au-

3, 1825, in Ogdensburg, N.Y. He edited several books in the Arabic language; and wrote a work in that tongue entitled Fasting and Prayer. He died April 3, 1866, in Geneseo, N.Y. Ford, Mrs. Sallie Rochester, author, was born in 1828 at Rochester Springs, Ky. She is the author of Grace Tmman; Romance of Freemasonry; Raids and Romance of Morgan and His Men; Mary Bunyan, the Dreamer's Blind Daughter; Evangel Wiseman; and Ernest Quest. Ford, Samuel Howard, educator, clergyman, author, was born Feb. 19, 1819. He was a baptist clergyman of Memphis, Mobile and elsewhere, and in 1855 he became editor Ford's Christian Repository of St. Louis, Mo. He was the author of The OrigServetus, Hero and in of the Baptists; Martvr; Battle of Freedom; complete EcHe clesia'stical History; and other works. died in 1905 in St. Louis, Mo.

thor,

was born Aug.

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Ford, Seabury, state legislator, governor, Oct. 15, 1801, in Pomfret, Conn. He served several terms in the state legislature; and was at different times speaker in each branch. He was the eighteenth governor of Ohio in 1848-50; and major-general of militia. He died May 8, 1855, in Burton,

was born

Ohio. Sewell, lawyer, author, was bom 1868, in Levant, Maine. He is a contributor to magazines; and resides in Hackensack, N.J. He is the author of Horses Nine; True Gate of Mogador; and

Ford,

March

7,

Shorty McCabe. Ford, Thomas, lawyer, governor, author, was born in 1804. He was a judge of the superior court of Illinois; and was the seventh governor in 1842-46. He was the au-

thor of History of Illinois from 1818 to 1847. He died in January, 1851, in Peoria, 111.

Ford, Timothy,

lawyer,

state

legislator,

was born Dec. 4. 1762, in Morristown, N.J. He was a member of the South Carolina state legislature; and the Charleston city council. He died Dec. 7, 1830, in Charleston, S.C.

He was a H., congressman. of congress from the fifth district Michigan. He died April 20, 1891, in

Ford,

W.

member of

Michigan. Ford, William D., congressman, was born He served in the New in Pi-ovidence, R.I. York assembly in 1816-17; and in 1819-21 he was a representative from New York to the sixteenth congress. He died in Watertown, N.Y. Ford, William Henry, surgeon, author, was born Oct. 7, 1839, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was twice president of the Philadelphia municipal board of health. He is the author of Healthy Dwelling-Houses and How to Buiid Them. He died in 1897 in Philadelphia, Pa. Ford, William Henry, civil engineer, author, was born May 17, 1852, in Paterson, N.J. In 1879-89 he was a mechanical engineer with the Hinkley locomotive works; and is now in business for himself at Niagara Falls, N.Y. He is the author of Boiler

Making

Makers; and Sym-

for Boiler

bolism of Orld Fellowship. Ford, Worthington Chauncey, author, was born Feb. 16, 1858, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He

was a government statistician at Washington; and is now connected with the Boston public library. He is the author of American Citizens' Manual; and The Standard Silver Dollar.

Fordham, Herbert Latham, lawyer, orator, was born Nov. 23, 1869, in Greenport, N.Y. Ee graduated with the degrees of Ph.B. and LL.B. from Cornell university of Ithaca. N.Y. Since 1896 he has practiced law in Oyster Bay and New York City and has conducted numerous important litigations. He has been an active public speaker in the campaigns of

the republican party.