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Patrick Ford (12 April 1837 – 23 September 1913) was an Irish-American journalist and Georgist land reformer. Ford was born in Galway to Edward Ford (1805-1880) and Ann Ford (1815-1893), emigrating with his parents to Boston, United States in 1845, never returning to Ireland. He wrote in the ''Irish World'' in 1886 that ''"I might as well have been born in Boston. I know nothing of England. I brought nothing with me from Ireland—nothing tangible to make me what I am. I had consciously at least, only what I found and grew up with in here."'' He left school aged thirteen and two years later was working as a printer's devil for William Lloyd Garrison's ''Liberator''. He began writing in 1855 and by 1861 was editor and publisher of the ''Boston Tribune'', also known as the ''Boston Sunday Tribune'' or ''Boston Sunday Times''. He was an abolitionist and pro-union. At 15, Ford went to work as a "printer's devil" for William Lloyd Garrison's newspaper, ''The Liberator''. He cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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