Ford, Allen N.

Born: 1807-XX-XX New York

Flourished: Lacon, Illinois

Ford was the editor of the Lacon Illinois Gazette from 1837 to 1866. In 1850, he lived in Lacon and owned $2,000 worth of real estate. By 1860, he owned $9,000 worth of real estate and $2,000 worth of personal property, and his household included a servant and two apprentices.

John Spencer Burt and W. E. Hawthorne, Past and Present of Marshall and Putnam Counties Illinois (Chicago: Pioneer, 1907), 28; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Marshall County, IL, 102; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Marshall County, IL, 68.