Ford Motor Company incorporationrecords series, 1903-1955.

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Ford Motor Company incorporationrecords series, 1903-1955.

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The Ford Motor Company Incorporation records series includes the articles of association, articles of incorporation, by-laws and amendments for Ford Motor Company of Michigan, 1903-1920 (1 folder), Acc. 122; a 1934 listing of Ford Motor Company of Delaware stockholders from 1919-1921, (1 folder), Acc. 315; and corporate minute books, stock certificates, a 1955 analysis of stock certificates from 1906 to 1926 showing the process of Henry Ford buying out the other stockholders of Ford Motor Company of Michigan and transferring the stock to Ford Motor Company of Delaware, finanical records, annual meeting notices, minutes of the operating committee meetings and executive committee meetings as kept by John R. Lee, payroll records from 1919 to 1920, and other records of Ford Motor Company of Michigan, 1903-1955 (1.6 cubic ft. and 2 oversize boxes), Acc. 85.

1.6 cubic ft., 2 oversize boxes, and 2 folders.

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Ford Motor Company. Office of the Secretary.

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Ford Motor Company was incorporated under the laws of Michigan on June 16, 1903. There were twelve stockholders, including Henry Ford, who held twenty-five percent of the stock. From 1906 to 1919, Henry Ford and his son Edsel proceeded to buy out all the other stockholders. On July 9, 1919, the present Ford Motor Company was incorporated under the laws of Delaware. Between 1919 and 1920 Ford Motor Company of Delaware acquired all the assets of Ford Motor Company of Michigan. Ford Motor Company o...

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 ...

Lee, John Roger

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Social studies educator and educational filmmaker; Professor of Education, Northwestern University, 1957-1976. From the description of John R. Lee Papers, 1951-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122371938 ...

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...