BIO: FORD, MICHAEL, s/o David O. & Catharine (Borders) Ford

Submitted by:  ivie@tima.com   (Diana Flynn)

FORD,   BORDERS,   PARKER,   VOORHEES

"HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, STATE OF
INDIANA, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC." CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS.
& CO., PUBLISHERS. 1884.

SULLIVAN CO., IN.
HAMILTON TWP.
PAGE 724
MICHAEL FORD is the eldest of seven children born to David O. and Catharine
(Borders) Ford, natives of Kentucky.  He was born in Clarke County, Ind.,
February 9, 1830, and was there reared until nineteen years of age, when he
came to Sullivan County, raised two crops, then went to Johnson County,
where he farmed about four years.  In the fall of 1855, he located on his
present farm--then forty acres of unimproved land, but since increased to
139 acres.  His wife, to whom he was married in Sullivan County, October
29, 1850, was Miss Mary A., daughter of Isaac and Mary (Parker) Voorhees,
natives of Kentucky.  Her birth occurred in Sullivan County, August 31,
1831.  Mr. and Mrs. Ford have this family:  John H., Walter and Daniel W.
V., living;  and Mary C., William, Isaac D. and Arrena.  Mr. Ford started
in life with nothing, but has now a comfortable home.  He is a Democrat,
and a prominent citizen.
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