Worthington Chauncey Ford (February 15, 1858 – March 7, 1941) was an American historian and editor of a number of collections of documents from early American history. He served in a variety of government positions: first, as the chief of the Bureau of Statistics for the U.S. Department of State, from 1885–1889, then at the U.S. Department of Treasury, 1893–1898, then as chief of the manuscripts division at the Library of Congress from 1902–1908. He also served as Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University from 1917–1922.
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15 February 1868 Brooklyn, New York
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7 March 1941 (aged 73) Atlantic Ocean
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Zodiac | Aquarius |
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