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Henry Ford

Industrialist
July 30, 1863 - April 7, 1947

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Henry Ford was born on a farm near Detroit, Michigan. He never really enjoyed farming and left the farm at age sixteen, three years after his mother died.

As a child he was fascinated by machines.

He always carried around in his pockets nuts and bolts and machinery parts. By the time he was thirteen he could put together a watch that kept time.

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This interest in machines led him to work for a while as an apprentice machinist, and later he went to work for Westinghouse servicing their steam engines.

Clara Bryant became his wifein 1888. He returned to the farm, built a house, and ran a sawmill.

They had one child, a son they named Edsel.

When Henry was twenty-eight he became an engineer at Edison Company which made electrical generating stations.

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He was made chief engineer two years later and advanced to a salary of $125 a month.

The first car he made was a "gasoline buggy" called the Quadricycle. He drove it around