Ford Biographical vertical file, 1939-2005.

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Ford Biographical vertical file, 1939-2005.

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The Ford Biographical Vertical File, arranged alphabetically by surname, is an intentionally assembled collection of predominately biographical information about executive level Ford Motor Company employees. Also included are some non-executive level Ford Motor Company employees, Henry Ford's personal employees, Ford family members, and other people whose papers are cataloged in the Benson Ford Research Center's online catalog. Sources of this biographical information include the Biography & Genealogy Master Index, Biography Resource Center index, Detroit Free Press and Detroit News obituaries from the 1970s, Ford Motor Company biographical press releases, Social Security Death Index, Who Was Who in America, Who's Who Among Automotive Executives, and various Ford Motor Company archival collections.

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Ford family.

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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 ...