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    as the Ford Drive-In) is located at 10400 Ford Rd in Dearborn, Michigan with the cross streets at Ford Road and Wyoming. Interstate I-94 is just nearby. The city of Dearborn grew rapidly in the nineteenth century. The families of Dumais, Drouillard, and Cissne began the formulation of the city. The name of the city came from Lewis Cass, the governor of the Michigan Territory at the time. He named it from his friend Major General Henry Dearborn. In 1825 much construction took place in the city as

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    largest elevator company. Richard was one of a trio of brothers born to John and Sarah Gardner in Dearborn, Michigan. His father worked as a humble farmer labourer on the average size Whitney farm in the boy's early childhood. John had married into the Whitney family by joining with his wife, Sarah Whitney. John saved enough money over Richard's first decade to buy his own farm a bit farther north of Dearborn in the in South Rockwood, Township of Austin. The hard working father unfortunately died in 1880

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    William and Mary Ford, who owned a farm in Dearborn, Michigan. When Henry Ford was growing up his dad gave him a watch to tinker around with. He had taken his father’s watch apart and put it back together so many times that by the time he was only 15 Ford was the unofficial watch repairman in his neighborhood. It was his first curiosity and interest in engineering that led him to designing the first automobile for the common man. Ford grew up on a farm in Dearborn, Michigan and would have kept working

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    born on July 30, 1863, (Burgan 5). No one knew that one day that boy would become the world's most famous car inventors. Being one of the first people to invent a gas powered car success was coming Henry Ford's way. He was born on a small farm in Dearborn, Michigan. As a kid, he loved cars, and he could take apart a watch faster than anyone out there. He later said, “To do for the world then the world does for you now that's success.” This proves that Henry wanted to be a very successful man who

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    world today. The Model T quickly became renowned throughout the world for its reliability and affordability. In 1919 I named my son Edsel the head of Ford Motor Company. When 1927 rolled around I had built many buildings along the bank of River Rouge Dearborn Michigan and those buildings included a steel mill and glass factory and other key components of automobile manufacturing. April 7 I died at 11:40 tonight at the age of 83 of a cerebral hemorrhage. I had retired a little more than a year

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    Still based out of Dearborn, Michigan; Ford Motor Company operates across six continents, in thirty eight countries and sixty two plants worldwide. Ford Motor Company has been a leader in total rewards since the start of the company in 1903. Through the challenges and successes the company has adapted and prevailed. History of Ford Motor Company The Ford Motor Company was founded in 1903 by Henry Ford, along with 11 other investors and established a headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan. Ford was

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    was introduced in 1908 The Model T cost 950 dollars. Then with the assembly line around 300 dollars. Henry is a true pioneer. One of America's foremost industrialist Henry Ford revolutionized the assembly line. He was born on July 30th 1863 near Dearborn Michigan. Henry created the Model T Ford in 1908. He died on April 7th at age 83 in 1947 because of a cerebral hemorrhage. Ford sold millions of cars and became a world famous company head. However he was for more than his profits, he was a renowned

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    Henry Ford Henry Ford was born a farm boy in rural Michigan and would rise from humble beginnings to be one of the pioneers of the auto industry where he would populate American landscape with his cars, to include 15 million Model Ts (Brinkley, 2003). Ford was a visionary leader which I will illustrate by showing you how he implemented the assembly line, resulting from ideas which he received from his intellectually stimulated employees and how he exercise the golden rule and payed ANY man $5 a

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    BIOGRAPHY: Henry ford once said: "I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say what is and what is definitely not possible". I assume this sentence is one, amongst others, that defines well how this man was. Henry was born on July 30, 1863, near Dearborn, Michigan (at this time the area was called Springwells Township), in a farm. Mr. Ford lived a normal childhood. He went to the public school and was certainly talented at two subjects: mechanics and mathematics. At the age of thirteen, he became

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    very important person in history because he invented the assembly line, which is still in use to this day. Early life- Henry Ford was born in 1863 to the couple of Mary and William Ford, and was their first surviving son. His family owned a farm in Dearborn, Michigan. He left home for an apprenticeship as a mechanic. He then returned to work on his family farm, but continued to work on steam engines. He married a woman that lived by him named Clara Bryant. Family life- In the first couple of years

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