Early Life
· Henry Ford was born in Greenfield Township or what is today Dearborn, Michigan on July 30,1863 and grew up on his father’s farm.
· His father only wanted Henry to become a farmer.
· One winter, instead of doing some of his chores (including shelling corn), Henry Ford made a machine from scratch that shells corn.
· His mother also died that winter.
· When Henry was at school he found the principals of steam power but caught a fence on fire.
· At age 16 Henry Ford left his father’s farm to go to Detroit to become a mechanic. He returned to the farm three years later.