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The Ford family is an American family from the U.S. state of Michigan. They are best known for their control of the Ford Motor Company automobile manufacturer which was originally founded by Henry Ford in the early twentieth century.
Descendants of Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company. Pages in category "Family of Henry Ford" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
Henry Ford was born July 30, 1863, on a farm in Springwells Township, Michigan. [5] His father, William Ford (1826–1905), was born in County Cork, Ireland, to a family that had emigrated from Somerset, England in the 16th century. [6]
Edsel Ford family home on Lake St. Clair. Benson Ford was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Eleanor Clay Ford and Edsel Ford on July 20, 1919. He, his brothers Henry II and William, and sister Josephine, grew up in Indian Village, and at the Ford's Gaukler Point estate in Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan, on Lake St. Clair.
Each of Ford's children inherited sizable shares in the Ford Motor Company, and the three sons all worked in the family business. On Edsel's death, his father briefly reassumed the presidency of Ford, then Edsel's son, Henry Ford II , became president of the company on September 21, 1945.
Alfred Ford's father was Walter B. Ford II (1920–1991), whose family was prominent in chemical manufacturing in the Downriver area south of Detroit. His mother, Josephine Clay Ford (1923–2005), was the daughter of Edsel Ford (1893–1943), who was the son of Henry Ford (1863–1947). [4]
She was the only daughter and the third of child of Edsel Ford and his wife Eleanor Lowthian (née Clay) Ford. [1] Her siblings included Henry Ford II, who also served as chairman and CEO of Ford Motors, and William Clay Ford Sr. [2] [3] Her father was the only child of Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motors. [1] [4]
William Clay Ford's 1939 Ford Midget Racer at Stahls Automotive Collection. Ford was born on March 14, 1925, in Detroit to Edsel Ford and Eleanor Lowthian Clay. [1]He graduated from the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut, in 1943 [2] and received a Bachelor of Science in economics from Yale University in 1949; he was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, captain of the soccer and ...