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FORD, Sallie Rochester, author, was born at Rochester Springs, Mercer (Boyle) county, Ky., Oct. 1, 1828; daughter of Col. James H. and Demo- retta (Pitts) Rochester; granddaughter of Col. John and Sallie Underwood (Lewis) Rochester of Danville, Ky., and a descendant of Nicholas Rochester, who emigrated from Kent county, England, to Westmoreland county, Va., in 1687. She was graduated from the Female seminary at Georgetown, Ky., in 1849. She was married to Samuel Howard Ford in 1855, and became asso- ciated with him in editing Ford's Christian Repos- itory and Home Circle, and in 1900 still conducted the family department. She was president of the Woman's missionary society of the west in Mis- souri for some years, and also of the Missionary society of the south. She is the author of: Grace Truman (1857); Romance of Freemasonry; Mary Bunyan, the Dreamer's Blind Daughter (1859) ; Maids and Romance of Morgan and His Men (1864) ; Evangel Wiseman; Ernest Quest (1877); and The Inebriates.

FORD, Samuel Howard, clergyman, was born in February, 1819; son of Thomas Howard and Ann (Buck) Ford. Thomas Howard Ford was born in 1790 near Bristol, England. His ances- tors were members of the famous Broadmead Baptist church of that city. At an early age he emigrated to the United States and settled in Illi- nois, afterward removing to Missouri. He sup- plied the Second church of St. Louis for a time ; in 1844 became pastor of the Baptist church in Columbia, Mo. , and died near there in 1850. Sam- uel Howard was graduated from the Missouri State university in 1843. He was licensed in 1840, and ordained at Bonne Femme church in Boone county. Mo., 1843. He was pastor at Jefferson City, 1844, at the North church, St. Louis, 1846; at Cape Girardeau, Mo., 1846-47, and at the East Baptist church in Louisville, Ky., 1853-60. He was editor of the Missouri Baptist in St. Louis in 1860. In 1853 he became the editor of the Western Recorder, the Christian Repository and the Home Circle. He accepted a pastorate in Memphis, Tenn., in 1861, and was pastor of the St. Francis Street church in Mobile, Ala., 1863- 65, and again in Memphis of the Central Baptist church, 1865-71. He received the degree of LL.D. from William Jewell college. Liberty, Mo., in 1859. He is the author of: Battle of Freedom

(1855); Origin of the Baptists (1860); The Great Pyramid (1884); What Baptists Baptize for (1886); Brief Baptist History (1893) ; Complete Ecclesiasti- cal History (1896) ; and many articles for re- ligious periodicals.

FORD, Seabury, governor of Ohio, was born in Cheshire, Conn., Oct. 15, 1801. He removed to Burton, Ohio, when a boy; was graduated from Yale in 1825 ; was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1837 and practised in Burton. He was a repre- sentative in the state legislature, 1835-41, and 1844r-45, being speaker of the house, 1840—41. He was a member of the state senate, 1841-43, and again, 1845—17, and speaker of the senate, 184.5- 46. He was governor of Ohio, 1849-50. On Sept. 10, 1838, he was married to Harriet E., daughter of John Cook of Burton, Ohio. He died in Bur- ton, Ohio, May 8, 1855.

FORD, Thomas, governor of Illinois, was born at Uniontown, Pa., Dec. 5, 1800; son of Robert Ford. His father was killed by the Indians, and the son was taken at an early age by his widowed mother, first to the territory west of the Mis- sissippi river, and svibsequently to Monroe county, 111., where he studied law and was ad- mitted to the bar. He was judge of the circuit court and later a judge of the sujireme court, from which latter office he was elected governor of Illinois, serving 1843-46. As governor he saved the financial honor of the state by opposing the proposed reijudiation of the state debt of over fifteen million dollars wasted by former adminis- trations in useless internal imjirovements and wild-cat banking schemes. He published: His- tory of Illinois from ISIS to 1S47 (1854). In 1896 the state erected over his grave a suitable monu- ment. He died in Peoria, 111., Nov. 3, 1850.

FORD, Worthington Chauncey, author, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Feb. 16, 1858; son of Gordon Lester and Emily Ellsworth (Fowler) Ford. He was educated in the Polj-technic insti- tute of Brooklyn and at Coliunbia college, and early engaged in literary work. He became a member of the editorial staff of the New York Herald in 1880, and in September, 1885, was ap- pointed chief of the bureau of statistics in the department of state at Washington, D.C. In 1893 he was appointed chief of the bureau of statistics of the treasury department. In 1898 he was engaged for a year by the trustees of the Boston public library to organize a statistical department, made necessary by the gift to the library of the collections of the American statis- tical society. He published : a revised edition of Wells's aVrt^HTOZ Philosophy (1879); The American Citizen's Manual (compiled, 1883) ; TTie Standard Silver Dollar (1884) ; Letters of Joseph Jonea (1889) ; Writings of Washington (14 vols., 1889-92) ; Spurioxts Letters of Washington (1889) ; Washitigton