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Worthington Chauncey Ford was an American historian and editor of a number of collections of documents from early American history.
He served in a variety of government positions: first, as the chief of the Bureau of Statistics for the U.S. Department of State, then at the U.S. Department of Treasury, then as chief of the manuscripts division at the Library of Congress.
He also served as Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University from 1917-1922.