How Was Henry Ford Successful

Ford was a very successful man, as you all may know or not he was a very good engineer which led him to his amazing company. Henry Ford helped society by making and designing cars, as he also followed in his father’s footsteps. As we can imagine all the hard work and dedication Henry Ford must of put into all these cars, trucks, and jeeps that we so thankfully drive today
Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1836 in a clearing in Michigan woods. They had came from Ireland (Lacey 4). Ford was only a child when he wanted to become just like his father. Henry Ford went from fixing watches to building race cars (pasquariello 1). When Ford was growing up wolves were still being shot in surrounding forest and the men would come home with wild turkeys and deer and have it for dinner with their family. The Ford’s had been poor protestant settlers in southern Ireland they were tenant farmers scratching a bare sort of living from the countryside outside cork. Henry Ford was to go through life a loner (Lacey 6). When Ford was seven he was going to school in a single-room establishment in Dearborn, it was …show more content…
His parents tried having a child, a little boy who died at the birth early in 1862. So when ford was born in the summer of the following year, he was Mary and Williams’s oldest son. Henry Ford was to commission to elaborate investigations to find out more about the orgins or his mom. But Fords agents could only find out a few things about her, most of which turned out to be tragic (Lacey 8). Ford had a son named edsel (“Cars” 42). Henry Ford had left his second wife in 1974. Fords brother named Benson, had frightened himself with a heart attack while still in his early 30’s. Most of Fords family had angina, his mom had it for years and years (Lacey 1). Henry ford wasn’t really close to any of his family members; on the other hand his father, uncles, and cousins all worked good together (Lacey