Guide to the Harry Pringle Ford Papers
Open for research.
Harry Pringle Ford was born in Maryland in 1856 and graduated from Washington College, Chestertown, MD, in 1876. After teaching school in Maryland for four years, he came to Philadelphia where he became active in the Hollond Presbyterian Church as an elder and as a Sunday School superintendent. After moving to Norwood, PA, in 1916, he served as an elder and clerk of session at the Olivet Presbyterian Church, Prospect Park.
Ford served as secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Publications and Sabbath School Work from 1890 to 1929 and was a member of the Executive Committee of the Presbyterian Historical Society from about 1912 to 1930. Ford was also secretary of the Board of Trustees of the General Assembly of the PCUSA for thirty years.
The collection consists of correspondence related to the Ford's work for the Board of Publications and the Presbyterian Historical Society and some personal correspondence and historical articles that he wrote. Among the correspondents are the Rev. William Martin Rice, Stated Clerk of the Presbytery of Philadelphia and J. R, Miller, Editor for the Presbyterian Publishing House. There are also letters from J. Wilbur Chapman and Harry Emerson Fosdick.
Researchers may want to consult Record Group 49, Board of Publication and Sabbath School Work Records, and Record Group 22, Presbyterian Historical Society Records. The library has publications of Ford.
Collection processed and finding aid prepared: January 1993
Glenn Colliver, Assistant Archivist
| Box | Folder | Description | |
| 1 | 1 | Finding Aid to Record Group 351 | |
| 1 | 2 | Correspondence, 1890, 1900-1928 | |
| 1 | 3 | Correspondence, (William R. Rice), 1899-1904 | |
| 1 | 4 | Correspondence, (Addie D. Bradshaw), 1921-1922 | |
| 1 | 5 | Board of Publication and Sabbath School Work, 1892, 1934 | |
| 1 | 6 | Presbyterian Historical Society, 1876-1926 | |
| 1 | 7 | Historical Articles and Notes, 1916, n.d. | |
| 1 | 8 | Historical Sketch, "Old Monie" Episcopal Church, 1925 |