# Seth Porter Ford > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Seth_Porter_Ford > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Seth_Porter_Ford.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Porter_Ford > Source revision: 1357340584 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) American physician **Seth Porter Ford** (October 12, 1817 – November 19, 1866) was an American medical doctor in the [Kingdom of Hawaii](/source/Kingdom_of_Hawaii). ## Life Seth Porter Ford was born on October 12, 1817[1] in [Washington, Connecticut](/source/Washington%2C_Connecticut).[2] 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](/source/Yale_University)[3] and published a book on inflammation there.[4] Ford married Maria N. Fowler, the daughter of medical doctor Remus M. Fowler,[5] on January 1, 1850. The couple moved to [Honolulu](/source/Honolulu) in 1852 from [Boston](/source/Boston). After trying to open two hospitals that were financial failures, his first wife returned to the US and he filed for divorce.[6] He was a founding member of the Hawaiian Medical Association in 1856.[7] He married Carolina (Carrie) Jackson in 1858. They had a daughter Lois Carrie Ford, who married first cousin Porter Dwight Ford in 1883.[8] Seth Porter Ford became a member of the [Honolulu Rifles](/source/Honolulu_Rifles) in 1864.[9] Ford died on November 19, 1866.[1] Jackson had just assumed ownership of a small island in [Pearl Harbor](/source/Pearl_Harbor) known as *Moku ʻumeʻume* in the [Hawaiian language](/source/Hawaiian_language).[10][11] It was then known as [Ford Island](/source/Ford_Island), and became the home of the [Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Ford Island](/source/Naval_Auxiliary_Landing_Field_Ford_Island).[12][13] ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Ford_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Ford_1-1) Eliakim Reed Ford (1916). [*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*](https://books.google.com/books?id=L0RMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA21). The author. pp. 20–21. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Elspeth P. Sterling; Catherine C. Summers (1978). [*Sites of Oahu*](https://books.google.com/books?id=A3sZAQAAIAAJ). Department of Anthropology, Bernice P. Bishop Museum. p. 58. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780910240734](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780910240734). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [*Directory of the living non-graduates of Yale University*](https://books.google.com/books?id=bi84AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA45). The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor company. 1910. p. 45. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Seth Porter Ford (1847). [*Dissertation on inflammation*](https://books.google.com/books?id=RUkjHwAACAAJ). Yale University. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** William Cothren (1854). [*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*](https://books.google.com/books?id=SHEFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA366). Bronson Brothers. pp. 365–366. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Hawaiʻi State Archives (2006). ["Divorces - First Circuit Court of Hawaii"](http://www.ulukau.org/gsdl2.7/cgi-bin/algene?e=d&a=d&d=D14-000017&q=%22Ford+Seth%22). Ulukau, the Hawaiian Electronic Library. Retrieved March 8, 2011. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-hjh_7-0)** Richard A. Greer (1969). "Founding of the Queen's Hospital". *Hawaiian Journal of History*. **3**. Hawaiian Historical Society: 110–145. [hdl](/source/Hdl_(identifier)):[10524/288](https://hdl.handle.net/10524%2F288). [PMID](/source/PMID_(identifier)) [11632066](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11632066). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** Yale University. Sheffield Scientific School. Class of 1876 (1908). [*Trigintennial record*](https://books.google.com/books?id=oAMEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA77). pp. 76–77.{{[cite book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_book)}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_numeric_names:_authors_list)) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** ["Ford, Seth Porter Dr. office record"](http://archives1.dags.hawaii.gov/gsdl/collect/governme/index/assoc/HASHfc9c/1388ee34.dir/Ford,%20Seth%20Porter%20Dr.jpg). *state archives digital collections*. state of Hawaii. Retrieved February 20, 2011. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** [Mary Kawena Pukui](/source/Mary_Kawena_Pukui); [Samuel Hoyt Elbert](/source/Samuel_Hoyt_Elbert); Esther T. Mookini (2004). ["lookup of *Ford Island*"](http://wehewehe.org/gsdl2.85/cgi-bin/hdict?a=q&j=pp&l=en&q=Ford+Island). *in Place Names of Hawai'i*. Ulukau, the Hawaiian Electronic Library, [University of Hawaiʻi Press](/source/University_of_Hawai%CA%BBi_Press). Retrieved March 8, 2011. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** [Mary Kawena Pukui](/source/Mary_Kawena_Pukui); [Samuel Hoyt Elbert](/source/Samuel_Hoyt_Elbert); Esther T. Mookini (2004). ["lookup of *Moku'ume'ume*"](http://wehewehe.org/gsdl2.85/cgi-bin/hdict?a=q&j=pp&l=en&q=Moku%27ume%27ume). *in Place Names of Hawai'i*. Ulukau, the Hawaiian Electronic Library, [University of Hawaiʻi Press](/source/University_of_Hawai%CA%BBi_Press). Retrieved March 8, 2011. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** Stan Cohen (October 1981). [*East wind rain: a pictorial history of the Pearl Harbor Attack*](https://books.google.com/books?id=3CR6AAAAIAAJ). Pictorial Histories Publishing Company. p. 20. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-933126-15-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-933126-15-2). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-13)** Gregg K. Kakesako (April 13, 1998). ["Ford Island has a checkered, colorful past"](http://archives.starbulletin.com/98/04/13/news/story2.html). *[Honolulu Star-Bulletin](/source/Honolulu_Star-Bulletin)*. Retrieved March 8, 2011. ## External links - Darlene E. Kelley (December 13, 2000). ["Keepers of the Culture: Kamehameha lV—(Part 3)"](http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/keepers/koc52.txt). *GenWeb Archives*. Retrieved March 8, 2011. --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Seth Porter Ford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Porter_Ford) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Porter_Ford?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.