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Birth of Henry Ford
Henry Ford was born in Greenfield Township, MI -
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Life of Henry Ford
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Henry's mother dies sometime early in 1876
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Henry finds a job at a machine shop in Detroit sometime in 1879
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Henry returns to his farm inn the summer of 1882
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Henry Ford moves to Detroit with his wife to work for Thomas Edison
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Henry Ford finished his first vechicle, the quadricycle. A small four-horsepower car.
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Henry sells the Quadricycle for $200
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Ford founds the Detroit Automibile Company in the summer
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Mass production era of the Model T
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Sometime in 1927 the last model T is produced, intrduction of the model A
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Sometime in 1932 henry builds the first V-8, a car.
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Henry Ford retires sometime in 1945
Henry ford leaves his position of President of Ford Motor company. -
Sometime in 1947 Henry Ford dies at age 83, at Fair Lane, his Dearborn home