Edwin H. Ford

    Edwin H. Ford, one of the prominent young farmers of Harrison Township, is a native of Indiana, born in Wabash, Wabash County, January 12, 1861, a son of Dr. James and Amelia (Holton) Ford, his father being a prominent physician of Wabash County.

    He was reared in his native county, and was given good educational advantages, attending first the schools of Wabash and later Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, and Butler University, Indiana. On leaving school he decided to devote his attention to agriculture, and accordingly in 1880 located in Blackford county, where he now owns 200 acres of choice land. He is engaged in general farming, and also makes a specialty of raising the better grades of horses and cattle.

    In politics he is a Republican. In 1883 he was elected Justice of the Peace, a position he is well calculated to fill. He is a member of the Phi Delta Theta Society, and also of the Knights of Pythias, Hartford Lodge, No. 135. Mr. ford is a young man of genial manners, and in the few years he has lived in Blackford County has made many friends.

Source: Biographical and Historical Record of Jay and Blackford Counties, Indiana by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887.