Skeel, Emily Ellsworth Ford, 1867-1958
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Emily Ford Skeel (1867-1958) was a bibliographer, editor and philanthropist. Her parents were Gordon Lester Ford (1823-1891), a railroad and real-estate magnate and collector of Americana, and Emily Fowler Ford (1826-1893), a poet. Like her older brothers Worthington Chauncey Ford (1858-1941) and Paul Leicester Ford (1865-1902), Skeel did historical research and compiled bibliographies on Parson Weems and Noah Webster. She and her husband, Roswell Skeel, Jr. (1866-1922), contributed time and money to various organizations and causes concerned with social reform or environmental conservation.
From the description of Emily Ford Skeel papers, 1871-1958. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122571116
From the guide to the Emily Ellsworth Ford Skeel papers, 1871-1958, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.)
Emily Ellsworth (Fowler) Ford (1826-1893), a granddaughter of Noah Webster (1748-1843) the lexicographer, and daughter of William Chauncey Fowler (1793-1881) a professor of rhetoric and oratory and English literature at Amherst College (1838-1843), grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts and moved to Brooklyn, New York in late 1853 upon her marriage to Gordon Lester Ford (1823-1891), a businessman and lawyer. Ford came from a prominent family, well-connected within both social and literary circles. Her family was friends with the Dickinson family, also of Amherst, and Ford and Emily Dickinson were childhood friends. Together they discussed literature and formed an adolescent group that wrote recreationally. Ford's literary aspirations continued into adulthood where she became a prolific writer of poetry and narrative, and achieved publication in various newspapers and magazines, along with My Recreations (1872), a collection of her poetry. Her publications are represented throughout some of the better-known nineteenth-century magazines and journals, such as The Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's, Harper's, and the New York Tribune. Ford was also active within several charity organizations including the Brooklyn Orphan Asylum and helped to organize fundraisers. She had four surviving daughters Kathleen Gordon (Ford) Turle (b.1856), Mabel Percy (Ford) Mayo-Smith (b.1863), Rosalie Greenleaf (Ford) Barr (b.1859), Emily Ellsworth (Ford) Skeel (b.1869), and three sons, Worthington Chauncey Ford (b.1858), a prominent historian and writer, Malcolm Webster Ford (b.1862), a well-known amateur athlete, and Paul Leicester Ford (b.1865), an historian and popular novelist. The children were educated and raised with the Ford family library, renowned for its vast holdings and collections.
From the guide to the Emily Fowler Ford papers, 1744-1893, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.)
Role | Title | Holding Repository | |
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creatorOf | Emily Ellsworth Ford Skeel papers, 1871-1958 | New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division | |
creatorOf | Emily Fowler Ford papers, 1744-1893 | New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division | |
creatorOf | Ford, Emily Fowler, 1826-1893. Emily Fowler Ford papers, 1837-1898. | New York Public Library System, NYPL | |
referencedIn | Howells family papers, 1850-1954 (inclusive). | Houghton Library | |
referencedIn | Paul Leicester Ford papers, 1869-1902 [bulk 1885-1895] | New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division | |
referencedIn | Records of the Rutgers University Librarian (George A. Osborn), 1880-1955 | Rutgers Special Collections and University Archives | |
creatorOf | Skeel, Emily Ellsworth Ford, 1867-1958. Autograph letter signed : to Belle Greene, n.d. Sept. 1. | Pierpont Morgan Library. | |
creatorOf | Skeel, Emily Ford, 1867-1958. Emily Ford Skeel papers, 1871-1958. | New York Public Library System, NYPL |
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associatedWith | Adams, James Truslow, 1878-1949. |
associatedWith | American Antiquarian Society. |
associatedWith | Brigham, Clarence S. (Clarence Saunders), 1877-1963. |
associatedWith | Carpenter, Edwin H. |
associatedWith | Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 |
associatedWith | Eames, Wilberforce, 1855-1937. |
associatedWith | Ellsworth, William Webster |
associatedWith | Ellsworth, William Webster. |
associatedWith | Ford family |
associatedWith | Ford, Emily Ellsworth (Fowler), 1826-1893 |
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