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Ford, Thomas

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5 Dec. 1800

McCulloch, History of Peoria County, 2:451.

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McCulloch, David. History of Peoria County. 2 vols. Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois, edited by Newton Bateman and Paul Selby. Chicago: Munsell Publishing, 1902.

–3 Nov. 1850.

Ford, History of Illinois, xxvi; “Ford, Thomas,” in National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 11:46.

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Ford, Thomas. A History of Illinois, from Its Commencement as a State in 1818 to 1847. Containing a Full Account of the Black Hawk War, the Rise, Progress, and Fall of Mormonism, the Alton and Lovejoy Riots, and Other Important and Interesting Events. Chicago: S. C. Griggs; New York: Ivison and Phinney, 1854.

The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. . . . 63 vols. New York: James T. White, 1898–1984.

Schoolteacher, newspaperman, lawyer, politician, judge, author.

Ford, History of Illinois, xix; Garraty and Carnes, American National Biography, 249; “Ford, Thomas,” in National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 11:46; McCulloch, History of Peoria County, 2:452; Ford, History of Illinois, title page.

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Garraty, John A., and Mark C. Carnes. American National Biography. New York: American Council of Learned Societies, 1999.

The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. . . . 63 vols. New York: James T. White, 1898–1984.

McCulloch, David. History of Peoria County. 2 vols. Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois, edited by Newton Bateman and Paul Selby. Chicago: Munsell Publishing, 1902.

Born in Uniontown, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania.

Ford, History of Illinois, xv.

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Son of Robert Ford and Elizabeth Logue Forquer.

“Ford, Thomas,” in National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 11:46.

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The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. . . . 63 vols. New York: James T. White, 1898–1984.

Moved to St. Louis, 1804; to New Design (later American Bottom), Randolph Co., Illinois, 1804; to Lexington, Fayette Co., Kentucky, 1819; back to St. Louis, 1824; and to Edwardsville, Madison Co., Illinois, 1825.

“Ford, Thomas,” in National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 11:46; McCulloch, History of Peoria County, 2:451.

Comprehensive Works Cited

The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. . . . 63 vols. New York: James T. White, 1898–1984.

McCulloch, David. History of Peoria County. 2 vols. Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois, edited by Newton Bateman and Paul Selby. Chicago: Munsell Publishing, 1902.

Married Frances Hambaugh, 12 June 1828.

“Thomas Ford,” Illinois Marriage to 1850, http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?MS_AdvCB=1&rank=1&new=1&MSAV=2&msT=1&gss=angs-g&gsfn=Thomas&gsfn_x=1&gsln=Ford&gsln_x=1&msgdy=1828&msgdy_x=1&catBucket=rstp&uidh=9xu&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&h=37196&recoff=5+7+23+24+57+58&db=eamil&indiv=1 (accessed 13 Mar. 2013).

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Ancestry.com. http://ancestry.com.

Moved to Galena, Jo Daviess Co., Illinois, 1829.

McCulloch, History of Peoria County, 2:452.

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McCulloch, David. History of Peoria County. 2 vols. Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois, edited by Newton Bateman and Paul Selby. Chicago: Munsell Publishing, 1902.

Served as state attorney for Illinois’s Fifth Judicial Circuit, 1829–1835; as judge of Illinois’s Sixth Judicial Circuit, 1835–1837; as judge of Chicago Municipal Court, 1837–1839; and as judge of Illinois’s Ninth Judicial Circuit, 1839–1841.

McCulloch, History of Peoria County, 2:452; “Ford, Thomas,” in National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 11:46; Sobel and Raimo, Biographical Directory of the Governors, 1:370.

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McCulloch, David. History of Peoria County. 2 vols. Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois, edited by Newton Bateman and Paul Selby. Chicago: Munsell Publishing, 1902.

The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. . . . 63 vols. New York: James T. White, 1898–1984.

Sobel, Robert, and John W. Raimo, eds. Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789–1978. 4 vols. Westport, CT: Meckler Books, 1978.

Judge of Illinois Supreme Court, 1841–1842.

Garraty and Carnes, American National Biography, 249; Sobel and Raimo, Biographical Directory of the Governors, 1:370.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Garraty, John A., and Mark C. Carnes. American National Biography. New York: American Council of Learned Societies, 1999.

Sobel, Robert, and John W. Raimo, eds. Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789–1978. 4 vols. Westport, CT: Meckler Books, 1978.

Governor of Illinois, 1842–1846.

Sobel and Raimo, Biographical Directory of the Governors, 1:370; Ford, History of Illinois, xxv.

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Sobel, Robert, and John W. Raimo, eds. Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789–1978. 4 vols. Westport, CT: Meckler Books, 1978.

Promised protection to JS when JS was jailed in Carthage, Hancock Co., Illinois.

Thompson, “Study of the Administration of Thomas Ford,” xci–xcii.

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Thompson, Charles Manfred. “A Study of the Administration of Thomas Ford, Governor of Illinois, 1842–46.” Master’s thesis, University of Illinois, 1910.

Addressed citizens of Nauvoo, Hancock Co., on evening JS was murdered, 27 June 1844.

Thompson, “Study of the Administration of Thomas Ford,” xcv.

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Thompson, Charles Manfred. “A Study of the Administration of Thomas Ford, Governor of Illinois, 1842–46.” Master’s thesis, University of Illinois, 1910.

Moved to Peoria, Peoria Co., Illinois, 1847.

Ford, History of Illinois, xxvi.

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Wrote A History of Illinois, published posthumously in 1854.

Ford, History of Illinois, title page.

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Died in Peoria.

Ford, History of Illinois, xxvi; “Ford, Thomas,” in National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 11:46.

Comprehensive Works Cited

The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. . . . 63 vols. New York: James T. White, 1898–1984.

Ford, Thomas

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