Oral history interview with Floyd F. Apple March 29, 1981.

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Oral history interview with Floyd F. Apple March 29, 1981.

Apple describes his experiences working for the Fords at the Fair Lane estate. He discusses power house operations, upkeep of grounds around Fair Lane, estate visitors, and interactions with the Ford family.

Sound recording: 1 sound cassette (ca. 60 min.)Transcript : 42 p.

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Ford, Clara Bryant, 1866-1950

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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 ...

Apple, Floyd F.

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Folsom, Richard

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Apple, Floyd F., 1902-1988,

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Born in Republic, Ohio in 1902, Floyd F. Apple relocated to Dearborn, Michigan in 1921 and a year later began working for the Ford Motor Company. In 1925, he began a twenty-five year career working in Henry Ford's Fair Lane Estate power house. From the description of Oral history interview with Floyd F. Apple March 29, 1981. (The Henry Ford). WorldCat record id: 51267743 ...

Fair Lane (Dearborn, Mich.)

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