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





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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.


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