Dora Ford
- Actress
Dora Ford was sister to Mabel Ford. Dora made
up 1/4 of the famous Vaudeville dance team The Four Fords. She was the
mother of magician, Roy Benson, who
was born in France in 1914 as Edward Emerson Ford McQuaid. Dora was
married to Edward Emerson Mcquaid of the Juggling Team Emerson and
Baldwin, Roy's father. She later married Gustave Schirmer whom she
divorced in 1925. Original Copies of the marriage license and divorce
decree are with Liane Curtis, her Grand Neice, in Los Angeles,
California. Gus gave her $100,000, a $37,000 apartment and stocks in
Schirmer Music. Not too shabby. Dora was born in October of 1985 and
died in July of 1978 in Queens, New York.