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Share of the swedish Ford subsidiary, issued 1929, signed by Edsel B. Ford Edsel Ford's Model 40 Special Speedster. Edsel Ford was born in November 1893 in Detroit.He was the only child of Clara and Henry Ford, and was named after Edsel Ruddiman, one of Henry Ford's closest childhood friends.
In 1926, Edsel Ford (the son of Henry Ford and a Ford Motor Company executive) and his wife Eleanor hired Albert Kahn to design a house on the shore of Lake St. Clair in a style resembling that of cottages they had seen in England in the Cotswolds. The site plan and gardens of the estate were designed by Jens Jensen. Construction of the house ...
The Edsel and Eleanor Ford House is a mansion located at 1100 Lake Shore Drive in Grosse Pointe Shores, northeast of Detroit, Michigan; it stands on the site known as "Gaukler Point", on the shore of Lake St. Clair. The house became the new residence of the Edsel and Eleanor Ford family in 1928.
Edsel Ford (1893–1943) – Ford Motor Company president and son of Henry Ford [12] Eleanor Clay Ford (1896–1976) – Wife of Edsel Ford and niece of retailer J. L. Hudson; William Clay Ford Sr. (1925–2014) – grandchild of Henry Ford; Aretha Franklin (1942–2018), Gospel and Rhythm & Blues (R&B) singer known as The Queen of Soul [13] [14]
GROSSE POINTE SHORES, Mich. (AP) -- The Edsel & Eleanor Ford House kept secret its 2013 sale of an oil painting by French post-impressionist Paul Cezanne to a private buyer for $100 million to ...
The Ford family are also members of the Episcopal Church. [ 1 ] Although the Ford family's ownership stake in the automaker had declined to less than 50% of the company's equity as of 2010 [update] , the family retained operational control through a special class of stock that was established early in the company's history and retained when the ...
The story begins with America’s preeminent industrialist Henry Ford and his son Edsel (Edsel II’s grandfather). In 1936, with an initial gift of $25,000, ...
A look back in the Free Press archives to 1957 when Ford introduced the Edsel to fanfare. Carbuyers weren't impressed. Free Press Flashback: In 1957, Ford Motor’s new Edsel model was filled with ...