The following 22 biographies were extracted from the History of the State of Kansas, 1883 and pertain specifically to Ford County. To view the entire history of Ford County, Kansas visit Ford County, Kansas History and Genealogy
Ford County is the southwestern most organized county of Kansas, embracing Townships 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 of Ranges 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 26, being thirty miles from north to south and thirty-six miles from east to west, possessing an area of 1,080 square miles.
The country is comparatively level, 20 per cent of the land, being bottom-land, which along the Arkansas has an average width of fifteen miles; the upland is 80 per cent, and but a small portion of it is bluffly. Good building stone is found in the county contiguous to Fort Dodge, and near Spearville is found good sand and a good quality of limestone. The county is well watered, the Arkansas River flowing forty miles through the county, and other smaller streams coursing through it in various directions. The most important of these are Mulberry, Five-Mile, Kiowa, Spring and Crooked creeks. Timber is very scanty; what there is, is mostly cottonwood and box elder. These kinds are mostly grown on the timber claims. The county was named for Col. James H. Ford, of the Second Colorado Cavalry.
- Anthony, A. J.
- Beamer, P. W.
- Cox, George B.
- Draper, M.R.
- Emerson, George S.
- Fringer, Herman J.
- Frost, D. M.
- Gaede, Baker & Co.
- Galland, Dr. S.
- Jarrett, Dr. G. B.
- Jones, B.A.
- Klaine, N.B.
- Leidhigh J. M.
- McCarty, Dr. T.L.
- Oliver March & Co.
- Sitler, H. L.
- Spencer, W. J.
- Sturm, Henry
- Sutton, M.W.
- Wenie, Frederick T. M.
- Wright, Beverly & Co.
- Zimmerman, F.C.