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Daniel Fowler Ashford (November 29, 1879 – July 17, 1929)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Daniel Fowler Ashford; with photograph of gravestone )〕 was a cotton planter from St. Joseph in Tensas Parish in northeastern Louisiana, who served from 1916 until his death in office as a Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2012: Tensas Parish )〕 ==Biography== Ashford was the son of Daniel F. Ashford (1837–1902), M.D., who attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1895, Ashford came to Tensas Parish to manage a plantation for Eli Tullis. He received plantation property thereafter as a wedding gift from his father-in-law, Joseph Moore. Ashford was a stockholder in the Panola Company, an agricultural firm for which Ashford's House successor, Joseph T. Curry of St. Joseph, was the secretary-treasurer. Ashford owned a stable of racing horses and was active in the sportsmen's group, the Cooter Point Club on the Tensas River. Known for his immaculate dress and refined manners, Ashford spent lavishly on himself and his daughters. He is believed to have been the first resident of Tensas Parish to own an automobile and a wristwatch.〔Frederick W. Williamson and George T. Goodman, eds. ''Eastern Louisiana: A History of the Watershed of the Ouachita River and the Florida Parishes'', 3 vols. (Monroe: Historical Record Association, 1939, pp. 1414–1416〕〔''Tensas Gazette'', July 26, 1929〕 Ashford and his wife, the former Margaret "Maggie" Moore (born September 30, 1878), had three daughters, Marie Louise (born 1903), Edith (born 1908), and Margaret Moore (born December 21, 1911).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Baptismal Records )〕 Mrs. Ashford died in Natchez, Mississippi, of acute cardiac arrest on February 27, 1912, at the age of thirty-three,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Death Certificates 1910 - 1921: Adams County, Mississippi )〕 just two months after Margaret's birth. The daughter Margaret never married and lived until January 30, 1980.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Margaret Ashford )〕 Like most of the Tensas Parish planters, Ashford was a member of the Episcopal Church.〔 Ashford died at the age of forty-nine. He is interred with his wife, youngest daughter, and parents at Natchez City Cemetery in Natchez, Mississippi.〔 In a special election, Joseph T. Curry was elected to succeed Ashford in the House. Curry served from 1930 until 1944. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Daniel F. Ashford」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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