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Henry Ford: Highlights of His Life

Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village· 2 chapters· 4,909 words

Henry Ford spent his early life on a farm. He was born in a small frame house that stood in a grove a few miles from Detroit, near the River Rouge. On each side of the river were the farms of people who had come to the Middle West to get land of their own. Henry's father, Will...

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1. Part 1

Henry Ford spent his early life on a farm. He was born in a small frame house that stood in a grove a few miles from Detroit, near the River Rouge. On each side of the river wer...

2. Part 2

There was, first, the matter of his interest in farming, and in the land. He had experimented with a gasoline farm tractor early in the 1900's, but he was unsuccessful in develo...