Historical Sketches of Kentucky by Lewis Collins, Maysville, KY. and J. A.
& U. P. James, Cincinnati, 1847. Volume 1. Reprinted 1968.  Owen County.
The Poets and Poetry of Kentucky, page 613.

MISS LAURA CATHARINE FORD
Is a native of Owen co., Ky., where her father, Capt. Harbin H. Ford, an
extensive farmer, from Virginia, had settled about 1845.  A few years
after, while she was very young, the father died; and the mother, with her
little son and daughters, removed to Frankfort, where they still reside.
(May, 1874).  Like many others of the gifted daughters of the West, Laura
C. Ford was first encouraged by the bounding enthusiasm and general
admiration of the great poet-editor, George D. Prentice, to try her pen at
poetry.  Her earlier efforts were published in the Louisville Journal,
afterwards in the Louisville Courier, the Courier-Journal, and other
Kentucky periodicals, and latterly and mainly in the Frankfort Yeoman.  She
writes with great ease, for pastime, and with a vividness and elasticity
that promise much for the future.  [Note: Poems shown: "Hunted Down" and
"The Higher Aim."]

Ford Prentice
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VA Frankfort-Franklin-KY Louisville-Jefferson-KY

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