Born in Washington County, Ohio, December 25, 1839. He attended the district schools common to the Buckeye State at that time, and acquired a good business education. Upon the death of his father in 1861, and when he was twenty-two years of age, he took charge of the old homestead, and handled the business of the estate, which in the autumn of 1863 was closed out by the sale of the property, and in the spring of 1864 started for Harrison County, Iowa, arriving with his mother and wife accompanying him to the country. He was united in marriage March 22, 1864, to Elethe Loring, who died in Magnolia June 4, 1864. For his second wife Mr. Ford married Fannie S. Miller, March 16, 1869. He was a banker at Logan, and a gentleman who has been prominently identified with Harrison County's history, for many years. Politically, he is identified with the Republican party, and in the fall of 1867 was elected Treasurer of Harrison County, serving two years, and in the autumn of 1877 was elected to a seat in the State Senate, holding a seat in that body during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth General Assemblies, in which position he proved himself a very valuable member. In the Seventeenth General Assembly he was made Chairman of the Committee on Public Lands, and the following session was made Chairman of the Committee on Banks. His district was well pleased with the record which he made while serving as State Senator. In his religious belief, Mr. Ford was a member of the Presbyterian church and Chrysolite Lodge, No. 420, A. F. & A. M., at Logan.

Born in Washington County, Ohio, December 25, 1839. He attended the district schools common to the Buckeye State at that time, and acquired a good business education. Upon the death of his father in 1861, and when he was twenty-two years of age, he took charge of the old homestead, and handled the business of the estate, which in the autumn of 1863 was closed out by the sale of the property, and in the spring of 1864 started for Harrison County, Iowa, arriving with his mother and wife accompanying him to the country. He was united in marriage March 22, 1864, to Elethe Loring, who died in Magnolia June 4, 1864. For his second wife Mr. Ford married Fannie S. Miller, March 16, 1869. He was a banker at Logan, and a gentleman who has been prominently identified with Harrison County's history, for many years. Politically, he is identified with the Republican party, and in the fall of 1867 was elected Treasurer of Harrison County, serving two years, and in the autumn of 1877 was elected to a seat in the State Senate, holding a seat in that body during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth General Assemblies, in which position he proved himself a very valuable member. In the Seventeenth General Assembly he was made Chairman of the Committee on Public Lands, and the following session was made Chairman of the Committee on Banks. His district was well pleased with the record which he made while serving as State Senator. In his religious belief, Mr. Ford was a member of the Presbyterian church and Chrysolite Lodge, No. 420, A. F. & A. M., at Logan.