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Henry Ford — Biography

Henry Ford is a legendary icon of a self-made man.

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A son of a farmer, he became rich and famous thanks to his own ideas, efforts and will.

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1947 - Dearborn, Michigan

Henry Ford was born in 1863, in Dearborn, Michigan, on his family’s farm. There his spent his early years till when at the age of 17 he left it and headed to Detroit to become an apprentice.

In 1882 he finished the apprenticeship and Westinghouse hired him for summer periods to demonstrate their steam engines on different farms.

Winter time he spent with his father (his mother died when he was 12) on the farm, building his own steam engine. During one of such winter periods he met his future wife, Clara Bryant, whom he married in 1888 and with whom he moved to Detroit in 1891.

There he started