Seth Porter Ford (1817–1866) was an American physician in the

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Life

Seth Porter Ford was born October 12, 1817 in

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. His father was John Mansfield Ford (1785–1843) and mother was Polly Ann Calhoun (1796–1864). He studied medicine from 1846 to 1847 at

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and published a book on inflammation there. Ford married Maria N. Fowler on January 1, 1850. She was daughter of physician Remus M. Fowler. The couple moved to

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in 1852 from

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. After trying to open two hospitals that were financial failures, his first wife returned to the US and he filed for divorce. He was a founding member of the Hawaiian Medical Association in 1856. He married Carolina (Carrie) Jackson in 1858. They had a daughter Lois Carrie Ford, who married first cousin Porter Dwight Ford in 1883. Seth Porter Ford became a member of the

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in 1864. Ford died on November 19, 1866. Jackson had just assumed ownership of a small island in

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known as ''Moku umeume'' in the

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. It was then known as

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, and became the home of the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ford, Seth Porter People from Washington, Connecticut 1817 births 1866 deaths Physicians from Hawaii Yale School of Medicine alumni Hawaiian Kingdom people