Charles A. Ford (Virginia politician)
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August 28, 1855
Charles A. Ford | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Virginia House of Delegates for Clarke and Warren Counties | |
| In office January 11, 1922 – January 8, 1924 | |
| Preceded by | Kenneth N. Gilpin |
| Succeeded by | not applicable |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Charles A. Ford August 28, 1855 |
| Died | December 18, 1933 (aged 78) |
| Party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Annie S. Sprint |
| Children | 5 daughters, son |
| Education | Shenandoah Valley Academy |
| Profession | merchant, real estate dealer, Baptist leader, politician |
Charles A. Ford (August 28, 1855 – December 18, 1933) was a merchant, politician and active Baptist who served a single term in the Virginia House of Delegates representing Clarke and Warren Counties.[1]
Born in Frederick County, Virginia to former Maryland farmer William Ford (1810-1889) and his wife Susan (1826-1869). Five years later, in the 1860 census, his large family included two older sisters (Susan, age 16, and Anna, age 7), as well as older brothers Jonaz and Benjamin (aged 14 and 13, respectively) and a younger sister Elenora (age 1) as well as his Pennsylvania-born grandfather Joseph (aged 78) and Maryland-born grandmother Sarah (also 78, who like her husband died in 1861) and a couple of aunts and cousins.[2] This family does not appear not related to pioneering Virginia Baptist Rev. Reuben Pleasant Ford Sr. (1742-1823), co-founder of the first Separate Baptist Association and later for 30 years clerk of the Dover Baptist Association,[3][4] who had several sons and whose descendants moved to Frederick County as well as Kentucky by the American Civil War.[5] After the conflict, during which various sections of Frederick County changed hands dozens of times and raids were common but which his older brothers also survived, his father operated Ford's mill east of Frederick County in Clarke County's Chapel district. Charles was educated at what was then the Shenandoah Valley Academy near Winchester, Virginia (probably the Shenandoah Valley Military Academy, since Seventh Day Adventists decades later founded the modern Shenandoah Valley Academy, a boarding school near New Market, Virginia).[6] In 1880 his family still included a younger brother and several sisters.[7]
In 1881 Ford married Annie S. Sprint, with whom he had a son who died as a child, and at least five daughters: Ruth Ford Kamp (1883-1981), Susan Ford Dickinson (1885-1980), Louisa Ford Waller (1889-1982), Esther Ford Brooke MacAtee (1892-1982) and Anna Blanch Ford Coe (1897-1988).[8][9]