Early Life
Nathaniel “Nat” Ford grew up in the state of Missouri. Born around 1795, Ford worked in Missouri at a number of different occupations. He was a county sheriff, school teacher, surveyor, and a flatboatman. As sheriff of Howard County in Missouri, Ford acquired the black Holmes family as slaves as slavery was still legal in that state at the time.
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