Sallie Rochester Ford | |
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Born | Sallie Rochester October 1, 1828 Boyle County, Kentucky, U.S. |
Died | February 18, 1910 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. | (aged 81)
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Alma mater | Georgetown Female Seminary |
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Samuel Howard Ford (m. 1855) |
Sallie Rochester Ford (née, Rochester; October 1, 1828 – February 18, 1910) was an American denominational writer and newspaper editor of the long nineteenth century. She was the author of, Grace Truman, Mary Bunyan, Evangel Wiseman, Ernest Quest, The Inebriates; Raids and Romance of Morgan and His Men, and The Life of Rochester Ford. She assisted her husband in the editing and publishing of the Christian Repository, a Baptist monthly for almost half a century.[1][2][3] Ford was a leading author of the Baptist denomination, and a subtle and effective interpreter of its tenets.[2][4]