Milton Bryant papers, 1903-1906

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...

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 ...

Bryant family.

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Bryant, Katherine, 1888-1966

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Bryant, Milton, 1876-1928.

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Milton Bryant, brother of Clara Ford (Mrs. Henry Ford), was a Michigan state representative from Grand Traverse County and president of the Grand Traverse Auto Company. Bryant graduated as a pharmacist from the Detroit College of Medicine in 1898 and spent five years as a chemist for a wholesale drug company in Louisville, Kentucky, followed by three years in the creamery business in Wayne County, Michigan. He went on the road as a traveling salesman for the Ford Motor Company and soon after was...

Ford, Clara Bryant, 1866-1950

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