Paul Leicester Ford

Paul Leicester Ford

Paul Leicester Ford (1865 - 1902) was an American novelist and biographer, born in Brooklyn. He was the great-grandson (through his mother's family) of Noah Webster and the brother of the noted historian Worthington C. Ford. He wrote lives of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and others, edited the works of Thomas Jefferson, and wrote a number of novels, which had considerable success, including "The Honorable Peter Stirling" (1894), "Story of an Untold Love", "Janice Meredith", "Wanted a Matchmaker", and "Wanted a Chaperon". He was murdered by his brother, Malcolm Webster Ford, at one time the most famous amateur athlete in the United States, who then committed suicide.


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