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BIOGRAPHY OF HENRY FORD, AMERICAN INDUSTRIALIST AND INVENTOR


EARLY LIFE

Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863 to William Ford and Mary Litogot Ahern on
the family’s farm near Dearborn, Michigan. He was the eldest of six children in
a family of four boys and two girls. His father William was a native of County
Cork, Ireland, who fled the Irish potato famine with two borrowed IR£ pounds and
a set of carpentry tools to come to the United States in 1847. His mother Mary,
the youngest child of Belgian immigrants, was born in Michigan. When Henry Ford
was born, the United States was in the midst of the Civil War.


FORD MOTOR COMPANY AND THE MODEL T

Ford incorporated the Ford Motor Company in 1903, proclaiming, "I will build a
car for the great multitude." In October 1908, he did so, as the first Model T
rolled off the assembly line. Ford numbered his models by the letters of the
alphabet, although not all of them made it to production. First priced at $950,
the Model T eventually dipped as low as $280 during its 19 years of production.
Nearly 15,000,000 were sold in the United States alone, a record that would
stand for the next 45 years. The Model T heralded the beginning of the Motor
Age. Ford's innovation was a car that evolved from a luxury item for the wealthy
to an essential form of transportation for the “ordinary man,” which that
ordinary man could afford and maintain by himself.

Thanks to Ford’s nationwide publicity effort, half of all cars in the United
States were Model Ts by 1918. Every new Model T was black. In his autobiography,
Ford famously wrote, “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he
wants so long as it is black.”


THE ROAD TO THE MODEL T

By the early 1890s, Ford was convinced that he could construct a horseless
carriage. He didn't know enough about electricity, however, so in September 1891
he took a job with the Edison Illuminating Company in Detroit. After his first
and only son Edsel was born on November 6, 1893, Ford was promoted to chief
engineer. By 1896, Ford had built his first working horseless carriage, which he
named a quadricycle. He sold it in order to finance work on an improved model-a
delivery wagon.

On April 17, 1897, Ford applied for a patent for a carburetor, and on August 5,
1899, the Detroit Automobile Company was formed. Ten days later, Ford quit the
Edison Illuminating Company. And on January 12, 1900, the Detroit Automobile
Company released the delivery wagon as its first commercial automobile, designed
by Henry Ford.


YOUNG HENRY FORD

Ford completed first through eighth grades in two one-room schoolhouses, the
Scottish Settlement School and the Miller School. The Scottish Settlement School
building was eventually moved to Ford's Greenfield Village and opened to
tourists. Ford was particularly devoted to his mother, and when she died in
1876, his father expected Henry to run the family farm. However, he hated farm
work, later recalling, “I never had any particular love for the farm-it was the
mother on the farm I loved.”

After the 1878 harvest, Ford abruptly left the farm, walking off without
permission to Detroit, where he stayed with his father's sister Rebecca. He took
a job at the streetcar manufacturer Michigan Car Company Works, but was fired
after six days and had to return home.

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