{{short description|American physician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2023}}
'''Seth Porter Ford''' (October 12, 1817 – November 19, 1866) was an American medical doctor in the [[Kingdom of Hawaii]].
==Life== Seth Porter Ford was born on October 12, 1817<ref name="Ford">{{cite book |author=Eliakim Reed Ford |title=Ford genealogy: being an account of the Fords who were early settlers in New England. More particularly a record of the descendants of Martin-Mathew Ford of Bradford, Essex Co., Mass |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L0RMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA21 |year=1916 |publisher=The author |pages=20–21}}</ref> in [[Washington, Connecticut]].<ref>{{cite book |author1=Elspeth P. Sterling |author2=Catherine C. Summers |title=Sites of Oahu |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A3sZAQAAIAAJ |year=1978 |publisher=Department of Anthropology, Bernice P. Bishop Museum |page=58|isbn=9780910240734 }}</ref> His father was John Mansfield Ford (1785–1843) and mother was Polly Ann Calhoun (1796–1864). He studied medicine from 1846 to 1847 at [[Yale University]]<ref>{{cite book |title= Directory of the living non-graduates of Yale University |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bi84AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA45 |year=1910 |publisher= The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor company |page=45}}</ref> and published a book on inflammation there.<ref>{{cite book |author=Seth Porter Ford |title=Dissertation on inflammation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RUkjHwAACAAJ |year=1847 |publisher=Yale University}}</ref>
Ford married Maria N. Fowler, the daughter of medical doctor Remus M. Fowler,<ref>{{cite book |author=William Cothren |title=History of ancient Woodbury, Connecticut: from the first Indian deed in 1659 including the present towns of Washington, Southbury, Bethlem, Roxbury, and a part of Oxford and Middlebury |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SHEFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA366 |year=1854 |publisher=Bronson Brothers |pages=365–366}}</ref> on January 1, 1850. The couple moved to [[Honolulu]] in 1852 from [[Boston]]. After trying to open two hospitals that were financial failures, his first wife returned to the US and he filed for divorce.<ref>{{Hawaiian Dictionaries |Divorces - First Circuit Court of Hawaii |D14-000017 |q="Ford Seth" |dic=gene |accessdate= March 8, 2011 }}</ref> He was a founding member of the Hawaiian Medical Association in 1856.<ref name="hjh">{{cite journal |author= Richard A. Greer |title= Founding of the Queen's Hospital |journal= Hawaiian Journal of History |volume= 3 |pages= 110–145 |publisher= Hawaiian Historical Society |year= 1969 |hdl = 10524/288 |pmid= 11632066 }}</ref>
He married Carolina (Carrie) Jackson in 1858. They had a daughter Lois Carrie Ford, who married first cousin Porter Dwight Ford in 1883.<ref>{{cite book |author=Yale University. Sheffield Scientific School. Class of 1876 |title=Trigintennial record |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oAMEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA77 |year=1908 |pages=76–77}}</ref> Seth Porter Ford became a member of the [[Honolulu Rifles]] in 1864.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://archives1.dags.hawaii.gov/gsdl/collect/governme/index/assoc/HASHfc9c/1388ee34.dir/Ford,%20Seth%20Porter%20Dr.jpg |title= Ford, Seth Porter Dr. office record |work=state archives digital collections |publisher=state of Hawaii |accessdate= February 20, 2011 }}</ref> Ford died on November 19, 1866.<ref name="Ford"/>
Jackson had just assumed ownership of a small island in [[Pearl Harbor]] known as ''Moku {{okina}}ume{{okina}}ume'' in the [[Hawaiian language]].<ref>{{Hawaiian Dictionaries |Ford Island |dic=pp |accessdate= March 8, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{Hawaiian Dictionaries |Moku'ume'ume |dic=pp |accessdate= March 8, 2011 }}</ref> It was then known as [[Ford Island]], and became the home of the [[Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Ford Island]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Stan Cohen |title=East wind rain: a pictorial history of the Pearl Harbor Attack |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3CR6AAAAIAAJ |date=October 1981 |publisher=Pictorial Histories Publishing Company |isbn=978-0-933126-15-2 |page=20}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title= Ford Island has a checkered, colorful past |date= April 13, 1998 |author= Gregg K. Kakesako |newspaper= [[Honolulu Star-Bulletin]] |url= http://archives.starbulletin.com/98/04/13/news/story2.html |accessdate= March 8, 2011 }}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{cite web |title= Keepers of the Culture: Kamehameha lV—(Part 3) |author= Darlene E. Kelley |date= December 13, 2000 |work= GenWeb Archives |url= http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/keepers/koc52.txt |accessdate= March 8, 2011 }}
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