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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]
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.
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 ...
Edsel Ford family home on Lake St. Clair. Benson Ford was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Eleanor Clay Ford and Edsel Ford on July 20, 1919. He, his brothers Henry II and William, and sister Josephine, grew up in Indian Village, and at the Ford's Gaukler Point estate in Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan, on Lake St. Clair.
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.
William Clay Ford's 1939 Ford Midget Racer at Stahls Automotive Collection. Ford was born on March 14, 1925, in Detroit to Edsel Ford and Eleanor Lowthian Clay. [1]He graduated from the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut, in 1943 [2] and received a Bachelor of Science in economics from Yale University in 1949; he was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, captain of the soccer and ...
Clara was married to Henry Ford from April 11, 1888, until his death on April 7, 1947, four days shy of their 59th wedding anniversary. They had one child: Edsel Ford (1893–1943). She was with Henry Ford upon his first test of a gasoline engine on December 24, 1891. [2] Ford was an active suffragist, often holding meetings at Fair Lane. In ...
President of Ford Motor Company No. Name Took office Left office Notes 1 John S. Gray [13] June 17, 1903 October 22, 1906 2 Henry Ford [13] October 22, 1906 January 1, 1919 3 Edsel Ford [13] January 1, 1919 May 26, 1943 4 Henry Ford [13] May 26, 1943 September 21, 1945 5 Henry Ford II [13] September 21, 1945 November 9, 1960 6 Robert McNamara [13]