Background
Ford, Julia Ellsworth was born on April 6, 1859 in New York City. Daughter of James Edwin and Julia Augusta (Brown) Shaw.
Ford, Julia Ellsworth was born on April 6, 1859 in New York City. Daughter of James Edwin and Julia Augusta (Brown) Shaw.
Educated Mistress Williamese’s School, New New York
Author: King Solomon and the Fair Shulamite, 1906. George Frederick Watts (with Thomas West. Lamont), 1908. Agricultural Engineer—A Note of Appreciation, 1908.
The Mist, play produced Little Theatre, London, England., 1913.
Imagina, 1914, second edition, 1925. Snickerty Nick, play for young people, produced at Heckscher Theatre, 1919.
Pan and Santa Claus, 1925. Consequences (novel).
1929 (later translated in China into Chinese).
Established, 1934, Julia Ellsworth Ford Foundation, an annual contest for encouraging literature for the young. Has made a series of 4 motion pictures in technicolor and sound for children called Snickerty Nick Series and uses them in personal showings at schools, hospitals, theatres.
Member Women Artists of the West, Dramatists Play Service, Studio Guild. Clubs: Cosmopolitan (charter.
Married Simeon Ford, 1882. Children: Ellsworth, Julia Lauren, Hobart.