W. W. Ford Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Liberty, Biographical Sketches, Page 1029

W. W. FORD, merchant, Stitzer; was born in 1849, in Williamsfield, Ashtabula 
Co., Ohio; is a son of A. J. and Clorinda Ford; began for himself at the early 
age of 13 years; he worked two years for 11. Johnson on a farm he then took an 
eastward course, locating for two years in New York State then worded his way to 
Grunt Co., Wis., in 1866, where he followed farming for two years; then went to 
Kentucky for one winter, going to Cleveland, Ohio, in the spring, where he 
resided for two years clerking; then returning to Grant Co., Wis., followed 
farming for two years. He married Miss M. N. Brackett, a daughter of A. N. and 
Mary Brackett, of Little Grant; then returned to Cleveland, Ohio, and once more 
clerked for Southward, Clark & Co., for eighteen months, when he returned to 
Grant Co. in 1874, followed farming for two years near Lancaster on the old 
Barber farm; he then followed staging for three years; then to Stitzer for two 
years where he followed the mercantile business; has a fine house and lot, store 
building in Stitzer; has three children living - Grace, Fred and Fay; one 
deceased, William; has been Treasurer of School Fund for one term; has kept Post 
Office at Stitzer for two years. Politics, Republican; Justice of the Peace two 
years.