Background
Ford, James was born on May 4, 1783 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, United States.
United States representative politician member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Ford, James was born on May 4, 1783 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, United States.
He moved to New York City in 1797 and to Lindsley Town (later Lindley, New York) in 1803. Ford was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses. He operated a sawmill and a gristmill at Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, until his death at that place in 1859.
Interment in the old Lindsley family cemetery at Lindley, New York. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
He moved to Tioga County, Pennsylvania, and was elected a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1824 and 1825.