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Ford, Jason P

educator, jurist, was born Jan. 19, 1855, in Marion county, Ala.

He has filled various public positions of trust; and is now judge of probate court of his native county.

Ford, John S

soldier, congressman, was born May 26, 1815, in Greenville, S.

C. In 1844 he was a representative in congress from Texas; and in 1850 was a member of the state senate. He served through the civil war and attained the rank of colonel.

Ford, John Thomson

theatrical manager, was born April 16, 1829, in Baltimore, Md. He has been a state director of the Maryland penitentiary for eighteen years, and is active in philanthropic work in Baltimore.

Ford, Joshua Edwards

missionary, author, was born Aug. 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, Melbourne H

lawyer, congressman, was born June 30, 1849, in Saline, Mich. He has been official stenographer of several Michigan courts since 1874; was a member of the Michigan legislature in 1885-86, and was elected to the fiftieth congress as a democrat.

Ford, Nicholas

merchant, congressman, was born in Ireland. He emigrated to the United States in 1848, and was elected a representative from Missouri to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses.

Ford, Samuel Howard

clergyman, author, was born in 1823, in Missouri. He was a baptist clergyman of Memphis, Mobile and elsewhere, living in retirement in St. Louis since 1887. He is the author of The Origin of the Baptists; and Servetus, Hero and Martyr.

Ford, Seabury

state legislator, governor, was born 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 governor of Ohio in 1848 and 1850; and major-general of militia. He died May 8, 1855, in Burton, Ohio.

Ford, Smith Thomas

clergyman, was born Feb. 3, 1851, in Camden, N. Y.

He has filled pastorates in numerous baptist churches in Hamilton, Greene, Albany, and Syracuse, N. Y.

Ford, Thomas

lawyer, governor, author, was born in 1804. He was a judge of the superior court of Illinois; and was the author of a History of Illinois from 1818 to 1847. He was governor of the state from 1842 to 1846. He died in January, 1851, in Peoria, Ill.

Ford, Timothy

lawyer, was born Dec. 4, 1762, in Morristown, N. J. He was a member of the legislature and the Charleston city council; a trustee of Charleston college, and president of various literary societies. He died Dec. 7, 1830.

Ford, William D

congressman, was born in Providence, R. I. He served in the New York assembly in 1816 and 1817, and was a representative in congress from that state from 1819 to 1821.