Seabury Ford

NAME: Seabury Ford

BORN: October 15, 1801

COMMUNITY AFFILIATIONS:

(born, Cheshire, Connecticut) family moved...Burton, Ohio (Geauga County)

EDUCATION:

graduated, Yale, 1825

GOVERNORSHIP:

20th governor, January 22, 1849 - 1850 (one term)

DIED: May 8, 1855, Burton, Ohio

FAST FACTS:

Ford was a lawyer by training.

He was the last Whig governor of Ohio.

FIRST LADY of OHIO

NAME: Harriet Cook Ford

BORN: August 20, 1807

COMMUNITY AFFILIATIONS: ? 

MARRIED:

September 10, 1828

DIED: March 3, 1888

FAST FACTS:

Harriet Ford was educated at the Burton Academy, Burton, Ohio. She was vice president of the Burton Soldiers Aid Society.