Henry Ford was the eldest of six children. His father, an Irish immigrant, settled in America in 1847 on a farm in Wayne County. He showed an interest in mechanics and machinery from a young age, ...

Henry Ford's parents left Ireland during the potato famine and settled in the Detroit area in the 1840s. Ford was born in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. His formal education was limited ...

Ranked Henry Ford was born in Springwells Township, Michigan in 1836, the son of an Irishman and a Belgian mother, and the eldest of eight children. From a young age, Ford was already about ...

Henry Ford's anti-Semitic views echoed the fears and assumptions of many Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Anti-Semitism in America saw a change in expression and virulence when ...