Samuel Howard Ford

Birth Date

1819-02-19

Death Date

1905-07-05

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

McCracken County and Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist minister, editor, politician. Native of England. Married to Sallie Rochester Ford. Father of Samuel Ford. Graduated from Missouri State University in 1843 and ordained a Baptist minister. Minister in the Missouri cities of Jefferson City, St. Louis, and Cape Girardeau from 1844 to 1847. Co-editor of the Western Recorder with Dr. John L. Waller. Co-editor and, following Waller’s death, editor of Christian Repository. Minister of the Gum Spring Baptist Church of the West Union Association in McCracken County, Kentucky, in 1852. Minister of East Baptist Church, Long Run Baptist Church, and Floyds Fork Baptist Church in the Long Run Association in Louisville, Kentucky, from 1853 to 1861. Minister in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1861. Member of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862. Minister in Mobile, Alabama, from 1863 to 1865. Returned to Memphis as a minister in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, District No 1, p. 287.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, 4th Ward City of Louisville, p. 79.

Ezra J. Warner and W. Buck Yearns, Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975), 87-88.
Lewis Collins and Richard Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Collins & Company, 1882), 353.
John H. Spencer, A History of Kentucky Baptists: from 1769 to 1885 (Cincinnati: J. R. Baumes, 1885), 191-192.
John Lansing Burrows, American Baptist Register, for 1852 (Philadephia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1853), 127; “Samuel Howard Ford,”
Find A Grave, "Samuel Howard Ford (1819-1905)," Memorial #23361, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23361 (accessed November 19, 2019).

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