Scrapbook, 1914-1915.

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Scrapbook, 1914-1915.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145782867

Scrapbook containing clippings and pamphlets concerning the introduction to Ford Motor Company employees of a profit sharing plan which distributed $12 million to male heads of families and at the same time shortened the work day from nine to eight hours.

0.2 c.f. (1 volume in 1 archives box)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6847317

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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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 ...

Ford motor company

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When Ford Motor Company was founded in 1903, Alexander Y. Malcolmson was elected the Company's first treasurer, but his assistant James Couzens actually managed financial functions. People holding the position of Ford Motor Company treasurer from 1903 to 1955 included Alexander Y. Malcolmson, 1903-1906; James J. Couzens, 1906-1915; Frank L. Klingensmith, 1915-1921; Edsel B Ford, 1921-1943; B. J. Craig, 1943-1946; and L. E. Briggs, 1946-1955. In 1903, the business office was in a small building o...