Portrait and biographical record of Ford County, Illinois : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States . -f3 J i_ £>-. >gHOMAS FORD, Governorfrom 1842 to 1846, and au-thor of a very interestinghistory of Illinois, was bornat Uniontown, Pa., in theyear 1800. His mother, afterthe death of her first hus-band (Mr. Forquer), married Rob-ert Ford, who was killed in 1802,by the Indians in the mountainsof Pennsylvania. She was conse-quently left in indige
Portrait and biographical record of Ford County, Illinois : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States . -f3 J i_ £>-. >gHOMAS FORD, Governorfrom 1842 to 1846, and au-thor of a very interestinghistory of Illinois, was bornat Uniontown, Pa., in theyear 1800. His mother, afterthe death of her first hus-band (Mr. Forquer), married Rob-ert Ford, who was killed in 1802,by the Indians in the mountainsof Pennsylvania. She was conse-quently left in indigent circum-stances, with a large family, mostlygirls. With a view to better hercondition, she, in 1804, removed toMissouri, where it had been cus-tomary by the Spanish Govern-ment to give land to actual settlers; but upon herarrival at St. Louis she found the country ceded tothe United States, and the liberal policy toward set-tlers changed by the new ownership. After somesickness to herself and family, she finally removed toIllinois, and settled some three miles south of Water-loo, but the following year moved nearer the Missis-sippi bluffs. Here young Ford received his first 1 schooling, under the instructions of a Mr. Hum[)hrey,for which he had to walk t
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