Henry Ford grew up on a small farm near Dearborn, Michigan. As Henry grew up, he spent most of his free time tinkering, and finding out exactly how things work. A pastime that developed thinking and logic abilities. But being a farmer's boy, he had little spare time, for there were always chores to be done. By twelve years of age, Henry was doing a man's work on the farm and had begun repairing machinery …showed first 75 words of 1427 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1427 total…death, a foundation was formed to administer his vast fortune. The foundation gave substantial support to various projects in the arts, in medicine and in other important areas of American life. Ford was a great man who revolutionized our world. Ford put the world on wheels, and in so doing, he made it a smaller world. Bibliography Montgomery, E. Henry Ford: Automotive Pioneer. Illinois: Garrard Publishing Company, 1979 Paradis, A. Henry Ford. New York: Putnam's Sons, 1968