Maurice W. Fox papers, 1883-1969.
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University of Michigan.
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Outside of museum holdings, no comprehensive survey and inventory of campus artwork had been attempted since 1937. With support from the Michigan Commission on Art in Public Places, 1,076 items were inventoried during 1988-1990. Additional inventory work was undertaken in 1997-1998 for risk management purposed, but generated little new information. From the description of Inventory of University of Michigan-owned art, 1988-1990, 1997-1998. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id...
Fox, Maurice Winslow, 1883-1970.
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Born in Detroit on March 2, 1883, Maurice Winslow Fox was the son of Charles and Emma A. Fox. Mr. Fox graduated from the University of Michigan in 1906 with an engineering degree. From 1907 to 1915 he served as a draftsman on the construction of the Panama Canal. Maurice Fox married Esther Gehrke in 1913. They had three children. In 1917, Mr. Fox founded Maurice W. Fox & Company, a Ford dealership, which he operated until 1930, when he founded the Maurice W. Fox Brokerage Company. As a real ...
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 ...
Scott family.
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