Background
He was born in Ballincollig, Ireland, and educated at Queen"s College Cork, Ford emigrated to the United States in the late 1860s.
He was born in Ballincollig, Ireland, and educated at Queen"s College Cork, Ford emigrated to the United States in the late 1860s.
He lived for a time in New York City where he may have worked in the office of Patrick C. Keeley and then went to work for architect Elbridge Boyden in Worcester, Massachusetts. Ford opened his own practice in Boston in 1872. Ford died suddenly at age 52 in August 1900.