ALLEN COUNTY OHIO - BIO: FORD, M. Nile (published 1925)
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HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume III, Page 137-138

        M. NILE FORD.  After some years of practical work in his profession
as a pharmacist Mr. Ford was called to the office of secretary of the Ohio
State Board of Pharmacy, with headquarters at Columbus. His many services
in his official capacity have made him known among all members of the drug
profession and business in the state.
        Mr. Ford was born on a farm near Delphos, in Marion Township, Allen
County, Ohio, July 5, 1882. His parents were Edward J. and Lovina
(Phillips) Ford. His great-grandfather, Joseph Ford, Sr., a native of
Maryland, was a pioneer settler in Ohio, locating in Champaign County.
Edward J. Ford, son of Joseph Ford, Jr., was born December 19, 1853, in
that county, and soon afterward the family moved to Marion Township of
Allen County.
        Lovina Phillips is a daughter of Isaac and Polly (Crites) Phillips.
Her grandfather, Daniel Phillips, came from Schuylkill County,
Pennsylvania, to Fairfield County, Ohio, and in 1855 the family moved to
Marion Township, Allen County, Ohio.
        The home and environment of M. Nile Ford until he was twenty years
of age, in 1902, was his father's farm. In the meantime he had attended the
township schools, had spent two years in Ohio Northern University at Ada,
and he studied pharmacy in the Scio College of Pharmacy in Harrison County,
a school conducted by Dr. J.H. Beal, for many years famous as a professor
and teacher of pharmacy. While in pharmacy college Mr. Ford was captain of
Company B of the college cadets, and at the end of his college course he
was awarded first prize for the best workmanship in the pharmacy
laboratory. Mr. Ford was graduated with the degree Graduate in Pharmacy
from this college in 1906, and then returned to his home town of Delphos
and was a pharmacist there until 1912. In that year he was appointed
secretary of the Ohio State Board of Pharmacy.
        This is one of the independent departments of the state government,
reporting directly to the governor. In the past ten years the board has
done a great deal of important work in raising the standard of requirements
for entrance into the profession of pharmacy, and at the present time these
requirements are higher than those found in any other state. While the
influence of the board has thus acted as a bar to incompetent membership,
it has also safeguarded the welfare of the profession and practice of
pharmacy by furthering all legitimate legislation affecting the business.
Mr. Ford is associated with all state and national organizations affecting
pharmacy.
        Mr. Ford married Miss Goldy May Friedline of Delphos, on April 30,
1913. He had the misfortune to lose his wife by death on March 3, 1920. She
is survived by a son and daughter, Robert Edwin, born September 6, 1915,
and Mary Ellen, born February 2, 1920. Mr. Ford is a Knight Templar and
thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a Knight of Pythias
and a member of the Methodist Church.


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