From "History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and 
Representative Citizens," by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer, 1902. 
 
Typed by Carol Taylor Lanza. 
 
Pages 847-848 
 
DR. H. T. FORD, who is a prominent physician of Wheeling, West 
Virginia, and a member of the board of trustees of the City Gas Works, 
has been a resident of West Virginia since 1869.  Dr. Ford is a native 
of Woodville, Ohio, and obtained his primary education in that state. 
 He also prepared for the profession of medicine there.  Dr. Ford 
practiced for a number of years at Benwood, West Virginia.  Later he 
settled in Wheeling, where he has a general practice, besides giving 
much of his time to other business interests. 
      Dr. Ford has been a member of the board of trustees of the City 
Gas Works since 1895.  Associated with him, are E. Buckman and J. 
Pollock, who conduct the city gas and electric light plants, located on 
Nineteenth Street.  Frank F. Thompson is superintendent of the gas 
works, and Clarence Underwood is superintendent of the electric light 
plant.  The board meets semi-monthly, the present secretary being 
William M. Schenk.  Godfrey Schul, recently deceased, was for many 
years secretary of the board. 
       Dr. Ford was married to Miss Sinclair, of Ohio.  One of her 
brothers now lives at Benwood.  Three children were born to Dr. and 
Mrs. Ford, namely: Clyde S.; Nils O.; and Alta M.  Clyde S. Ford 
graduated from Linsly Institute in Wheeling, after which he attended 
Washington and Jefferson College, from which he was graduated, and 
later, was a student in Delaware University.  He practiced medicine for 
three years with his father, and then removed for a short time to an 
office on the corner of Twenty-third and Chapline Streets.  During the 
war with Spain, he went to Cuba, and at present is a regular army 
surgeon in the Philippines.  Dr. Clyde S. Ford is also a graduate of 
the Columbia Medical College, of New York City, and was for two years 
surgeon-in-chief at Emergency Hospital in that city.  Nils O. Ford, the 
younger son, graduated from Washington and Jefferson College and also 
from the Ohio State University, where he completed a course of civil 
and mining engineering in June, 1901.  He is prepared for ore and metal 
assaying and for surveying, and is also a constructing engineer.  Alta 
M., the only daughter of Dr. Ford, married Rev. Dr. King, who is pastor 
of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Wilmington, Deleware.   
        Dr. H. T. Ford and his family are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church.  The subject of this sketch is one of the most highly 
respected physicians and citizens of Wheeling, where he has a host of 
friends.