Ford graduated from the Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1898, and was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

[3][4][5][6][7] After the war he served in a series of staff and command assignments, including Infantry and Quartermaster postings to Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, Washington, D.C., and the installation now known as Fort Drum, New York.

By tireless energy, good judgment, and keen foresight he proved to be an important factor in the brilliant military operations of the 27th Division.

He was one of the first four active duty officers promoted to lieutenant general since 1918.,[34][35] He was a member of the Military Order of Foreign Wars.

[47] Their son Hamer Pace Ford (1905–1950) graduated from West Point in 1924 and was a career Army officer, attaining the rank of Colonel before his death in Berlin, Germany.

[51] General Ford died at the Army's Carlisle Barracks on January 19, 1961, while en route to John F. Kennedy's inaugural.