Ford Motor Company Collection. 1903 - 1954. Films Relating to Henry Ford and Ford Motor Company. 1978 - 1980. Road to Happiness

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Ford Motor Company Collection. 1903 - 1954. Films Relating to Henry Ford and Ford Motor Company. 1978 - 1980. Road to Happiness

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Ford, Henry, 1863-1947

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Industrialist and philanthropist Henry Ford, born July 30, 1863, grew up on a farm in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. Mechanically inclined from an early age, he worked in Detroit machine shops as a young man and became an engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company in 1891. Henry and Clara Jane Bryant, married in 1888, had one child, Edsel, born in 1893. In that same year, Henry tested his first internal combustion engine, and by 1896 completed his first car, the Quadricycle. Ford partnered in ...