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THE LIFE OF HENRY FORD     Henry ford was born July 30, 1863. He was the origin child out of six born to William and Mary Ford. He grew up on a big farm in Dearborn, Michigan. He went to school in a one room building and did many chores every day after he got home. He did not comparable farm chores. He did like to work on mechanical things. When he was 16, he left home to move to Detroit. He got a job there working on machinery. trio years later he went back home and began to work on repairing steam engines. In 1888, he married Clara and ran a sawmill to make money.     In 1891, Henry Ford began working for Edison Illuminating Company in Detroit. He was promoted to Chief direct in 1893. He began to experiment on internal flame engines on his own time at home. In 1896, he built his own vehicle that moved on its own called the Quadricycle. He was not the first-year to make a machine that ran on gasoline by itself.       In 1903, the Ford Motor Company was created. He became the Vice President and the Chief Engineer of the corporation. There were other people who helped run the business and give money to it. The company only made a few cars a day. In 1908, he made the Model T. It was reliable and did not cost a disperse. It was easy to drive and handle on rough roads. It was a huge success.     By 1918, or so half of all the cars in America were Model Ts. In 1910, in Highland, Michigan, Mr. Ford built another plant to make a lot more of these cars. In 1913, he created the first true