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What Was Henry Ford A Machinist

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[3]Surprisingly, Henry Ford had an extremely personal life. When Henry became a machinist at age sixteen, he quit to become an engineer at Detroit electric company because engineering fascinated him. Henry, who married Clara Bryant in 1888, only had one child named Edsel. [1] Edsel was born in 1893. Because he was so close to his father, Edsel became a superior president of the Ford Company from 1919 to his death in 1943. The success of the Model T made Henry a rich man and he was known for giving some of his fortune away. One surprising fact is that Henry enjoyed camping with celebrities such as Tomas Edison. Aside from Henry’s cars, he recorded private books and newspapers that attacked Jews and he opposed labor unions. In order to become
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