Ford Motor Company legal records collection, 1898-1961 (bulk 1915-1950).

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Ford Motor Company legal records collection, 1898-1961 (bulk 1915-1950).

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The Ford Motor Company Legal records collection consists of five series: Legal Department (Ford Motor Company) records series, 1898-1927 (45.8 cubic ft. and 4 card files), Acc. 53, 75, 297; Office of the General Counsel (Ford Motor Company) records series, 1908-1961 (38.8 cubic ft. and 3 oversize boxes), Acc. 375, 380, 1096, 1097, 1098 and 1886; Cravath, Swaine & Moore records series, 1935-1941 (32.4 cubic ft.), Acc. 897; Bound Proceedings series, 1903-1941 (8.4 cubic ft.), Acc. 295, 277; Compensation Department (Ford Motor Company) series, 1924-1941 (1 cubic ft.), Acc. 789.

126.4 cubic ft., 3 oversize boxes, and 4 card files.

The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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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...

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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 ...

Gossett, William T. 1904-1998.

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Longley, Clifford Boles, 1888-1954.

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Clifford Boles Longley joined the legal department of Ford Motor Company in 1919, becoming General Counsel for the company from 1921 to 1929. After 1929, as partner in the law firm of Bodman, Longley, Bogle, Middleton and Farley, Longley became attorney for the Ford family, particularly for Edsel B. Ford. Longley served on the first board of trustees of the Ford Foundation From the description of Clifford B. Longley papers, 1920-1942. (The Henry Ford). WorldCat record id: 716312586 ...

Ford Motor Company. Compensation Dept.

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Ford Motor Company. Legal Department.

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Cravath, Swaine & Moore

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Cravath, Swaine & Moore is a major Wall Street law firm that traces its beginnings to the law practice begun by William H. Seward in Auburn, N.Y., in 1823. It assumed its current character when Paul D. Cravath joined the firm of Seward, Guthrie & Steele in 1899. Cravath became senior partner in 1906. After a number of changes, the firm became Cravath, Swaine & Moore in 1944. Cravath pioneered the development of the modern corporate law office and developed a system that paralleled th...