Ford, Arnold

ARNOLD FORD, hotel- keeper, P.O. Harmonsburg, was born in Summits Township, this county, May 20, 1820; son of Thomas and Catharine (Brown) Ford. His father was married four times. By his first wife, Catharine Brown, he had eight children: John (deceased), Christopher, Eliza, Julia, Thomas (deceased), Atkinson (deceased), Andrew and Lorinda. His second wife was Lydia Rick, by whom he had five children: William, David, Silas, James, and Daniel a soldier in the late war, in Company I of a Michigan regiment; was killed at the battle of Petersburg. His third wife was Isabella Marshall, by whom he had four children: Maggie, Sarah, Alexander, and one deceased. Alexander was also a soldier in the late war, in the Eighth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; was wounded at Laurel Hill. Mr. Thomas Ford’s fourth wife was Elizabeth Dikeman, by whom he had no children. Arnold Ford was married in December, 1844, to Susan A., daughter of Benjamin Boggs, by whom he had six children: Sarah L., Mary E., Thomas J., Annie E., B.F. (deceased) and Florence R. Mr. Ford had for years kept hotel at Harmonsburg, and in 1862 enlisted in the One Hundred and Eleventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (Erie Regiment), serving three years and four months. He was discharged at the close of the war in 1865, returned home, but had to go to the hospital at Cleveland, where his wife nursed him and was the means of saving his life.