Edsel Bryant Ford - Detroit MI
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Don.Morfe
N 42° 26.643 W 083° 07.638
17T E 325048 N 4701272
Ford Motor Company President. The only child of Henry Ford I and Clara Bryant, he married Eleanor Lowthian Clay in 1916. A designer and executive, he was the first secretary of the Ford Motor Company, becoming its president in 1921 and serving until 1943.
Waymark Code: WM12T70
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 07/11/2020
Views: 1
He is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Section 10.
Description:
From Find A Grave-Ford Motor Company President. The only child of Henry Ford I and Clara Bryant, he married Eleanor Lowthian Clay in 1916. A designer and executive, he was the first secretary of the Ford Motor Company, becoming its president in 1921 and serving until 1943. He developed the collections of decorative arts and Americana at the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan, and served on the Arts Commission of the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) from 1925 to 1943. He and Eleanor amassed a huge priceless art collection, most of which was bequeathed to the DIA with reproductions created for their home-turned-museum, the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House in Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan.
Date of birth: 11/06/1893
Date of death: 05/26/1943
Area of notoriety: Science/Technology
Marker Type: Monument
Setting: Outdoor
Fee required?: No
Web site: [Web Link]
Visiting Hours/Restrictions: Not listed
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