Stuart Morris Goodspeed collection, 1931.
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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...
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 ...
Goodspeed, Stuart Morris, 1906-1955.
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On April 14, 1931, Henry Ford, with son Edsel, drove the 20 millionth Ford automobile off the assembly line. In the past, the company had used milestone cars for promotion and publicity so it is not strange that the company decided to send the 20 millionth car on a nationwide publicity tour. The car traveled as far south as Texas, north to Wisconsin, east to Kentucky and Tennessee and west to Los Angeles. It created interest wherever it went and attracted not only the general public, dealers and...
Ford, Edsel, 1893-1943
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Edsel Ford's interests beyond automobiles and the automobile industry were broad and varied. He was president of the Arts Commission of the Detroit Institute of Arts, a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, and a trustee for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc. He was a member of the Isle Royal National Park Commission, chairman of the board of the Detroit University School, and a director of the Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit. He was active in Ford Motor Company educatio...
Fairbanks, Douglas, 1883-1939
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Ford Motor Company. Ford Division
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