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Henry Ford is born to William and Mary Ford on July 30, 1863. -
On March 29, 1876 Henry Ford's mother died from complications in childbirth when Ford was 13 years old. -
Henry Ford marries Clara Jane Bryant of Greenfield Michigan on April 11, 1888. -
Henry and Clara have one son together, Edsel Bryant Ford on November 6, 1893. -
On December 24, 1893 Henry Ford made his first working engine in his kitchen. -
On June 4, 1896 Henry Ford makes a different version of his first engine and puts it on the Quadricycle; making it the first Ford Automobile. -
In August of 1899 Henry Ford and others made the Detroit Motor Company; however the company went bankrupt 18 months later. -
On November 30, 1901 Ford created the Henry Ford Company; however Ford later left this company and it turned into the Cadillac Motor Company. -
On June 16, 1903 Henry Ford and others created the Ford Motor Company. -
On July 15, 1903 the first Ford car was sold for $850. -
In 1919 Henry Ford stepped down from his position as company president; his son Edsel Ford succeeded his fathers place in the company. -
On March 26, 1927 the 15th million Ford car is sold after 24 years of business. -
In 1943 Henry Ford's son Edsel died from stomach cancer, so Ford took the role as president of the company once again. -
In 1945, two years after his son died, Henry Ford recommended that his grandson Henry Ford II take the role as company president. -
Henry Ford died on April 7, 1947 from a stroke with a net worth of $1.2 billion.