A History of Kentucky Baptists From 1769 to 1885, Including More Than 
800 Biographical Sketches, J. H. Spencer, Manuscript Revised and 
Corrected by Mrs. Burilla B. Spencer, In Two Volumes.  Printed For the 
Author.  1886.  Republished By Church History Research & Archives 1976 
Lafayette, Tennessee. Vol. 2, pp 191-192.  [Jefferson County]

SAMUEL HOWARD FORD was a prominent member of Long Run Association, from 
1853 to 1861.  If he was not a native of Missouri he was raised up in 
that State, and there commenced his ministry.  About 1851, he located in 
Paducah as a teacher.  He remained there about two years.  In 1852, he 
preached a discourse before West Union Association, on the Past and 
Future of the Baptists.  The sermon was published, and attracted some 
attention.  The next year he moved to Louisville, and became joint 
editor, with John L. Waller, of the Christian Repository.  He soon 
attracted the attention of the denomination as a brilliant writer, and 
an eloquent preacher.  After the death of Dr. Waller, Mr. Ford became 
the sole editor of the Christian Repository, except that his brilliant 
and accomplished wife conducted the family department.  The magazine 
soon became very popular, and so continues to the present time.  Mr. 
Ford also edited the Western Recorder a part of the time that he spent 
in Kentucky.  He was pastor of East church in Louisville, some years, 
and afterwards, of Long Run and Floyds Fork (now Fisherville), in the 
east end of Jefferson county.  
	In the Fall of 1861, Mr. Ford left Louisville privately, and 
hastened to share his fortune with the Southern Confederacy.  He was a 
member from Kentucky, of the first Confederate States Congress.  At the 
close of his term he went to Memphis, and from there to Mobile, Alabama.  
At the close of the war, he returned to Memphis.  Here he was 
instrumental in establishing a new church, to which he ministered, in 
connection with his editorial labors, several years.  Subsequently he 
moved to St. Louis, where he still resides, devoting his time 
principally to conducting the Christian Repository.  Dr. Ford is now 
(1885) about 65 years of age.  He has been conducting his valuable and 
deservedly popular monthly, about 30 years.  He is still robust in 
health, and apparently able to perform as much mental labor as when he 
commenced his editorial career.

Ford Waller
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St._Louis-St._Louis-MO Paducah-McCracken-KY TN AL

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