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Henry Ford is born on a decent farm as the first child to the couple William and Mary Ford
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Henry Ford gets a well-payed job at Edison Illuminating Company and begins the road of his passion of one day becoming the founder of the Ford Motor Company.
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Completes the Quadricycle, and drives it through the streets of Detroit.
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Henry Ford meets Thomas Edison and Edison encourages him to continue in the automobile industry
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Ford opened his first car company, and in 1902 it was called Cadallac Motor Car Co.
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Ford Company is established and the Model A is built
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Henry Ford established his third automobile business, Ford Motor Company.
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Production begins at Piquette Avenue in Detroit, Ford
Motor Company's first purpose-built factory -
Henry Ford created the Model T with a group of employees.
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Builds his first automatic automobile assembly line in Highland Park.
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Henry Ford doubled wages to $5 per day.
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Henry Ford founds the hospital in Dearborn.
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Henry Ford announces his plan to peacefully end World War 1. This is known as the "Peace Ship" expedition.
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Ford Company controlls auto production for the year.
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Ford Motor Company makes a huge production of Model T's during its years of sale and popularity. Because of this, the Ford Motor Company reaches a production of 15,000,000 cars and never produces them again.
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The Ford Foundation is still running today aand has an income of 6.027 billion dollars
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Henry Ford died this day in his hometown, Fairlane. He died of cerebral homorrage at age 83.
