| Ford Family | |
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 Henry Ford .jpg) Henry Ford II (b).jpg) William C. Ford Jr. | |
| Current region | Michigan, U.S. |
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| Founder | William Ford |
| Connected families | Firestone |
| Estate(s) | Fair Lane Edsel and Eleanor Ford House |
TheFord Family is an American family from the U.S. state ofMichigan. They are best known for their control of theFord Motor Company automobile manufacturer which was originally founded byHenry Ford in the early twentiethcentury. Henry's grandsonWilliam Clay Ford Sr. and his family have controlled theDetroit Lions franchise of theNational Football League since late 1963. The Ford family are also members of theEpiscopal Church.[1]
Although the Ford family's ownership stake in the automaker had declined to less than 50% of the company's equity as of 2010[update], the family retained operational control through a specialclass of stock that was established early in the company's history and retained when the company made itsinitial public offering in 1956.[2][3][4][5] The family owns all of the company'sClass B shares, which are collectively entitled to elect 40% of the company'sboard of directors, with the remaining 60% elected by the holders of the company's publicly tradedcommon stock.
| Isaac Ford (1749–?) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| William Ford (1775–1818?) | Rebecca Jennings (1776–1851) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Samuel Ford (c. 1792–1842) | Jonathan "John" Ford (c. 1799–1864) | Thomasine Smith (1803–1847) | George Ford (c. 1811–1864) | Henry Ford (c. 1813–?) | Stephen Ford (1815–?) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rebecca Ford [Flaherty] (1825–1895) | William Ford (1826–1905) | Mary Litogot O'Hern (c. 1839–1876) | Jane Ford [Smith] (1829–1851) | Henry Ford Sr. (1840–1901) | Mary Ford [Ford] (c. 1832–1882) | Nancy Ford [Flaherty] (1834–1920) | Samuel Ford (1837–1884) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Infant (1861–1861) | Ford FounderHenry Ford (1863–1947) | Clara Jane Bryant (1866–1950) | John Ford (c. 1865–1927) | Margaret Ford [Ruddiman] (1867–1960) | Jane Ford (c. 1869–1906) | William Ford (1871–1959) | Robert Ford (1873–1934) | Infant (c. 1876–1876) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Edsel Ford (1893–1943) | Eleanor Lowthian Clay (1896–1976) | Harvey S. Firestone Jr. (1898–1973) | Elizabeth Parke (1897–1990) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Henry Ford II (1917–1987) | Anne McDonnell (1919–1996) | Benson Ford Sr. (1919–1978) | Edith McNaughton (1920–1980) | Josephine Clay Ford [Ford] (1923–2005) | Walter Buhl Ford II (1920–1991) | William Clay Ford Sr. (1925—2014) | Martha Parke Firestone (b. 1925) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Charlotte M. Ford (1941-2025) | Anne Ford (b. 1943) | Edsel Ford II (b. 1948) | Walter Buhl Ford III (1943–2010) | Eleanor Clay Ford [Sullivan] (b. 1946) | Josephine Clay Ford [Ingle] (b. 1949) | Alfred Brush Ford (b. 1950) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elena Anne Ford-Niarchos (b. 1966) | Benson Ford Jr. (b. 1949) | Lynn Ford [Alandt] (b. 1951) | Martha Parke "Muffy" Ford [Morse] (b. 1948) | Sheila Ford [Hamp] (b. 1951) | William Clay Ford Jr. (b. 1957) | Elizabeth Ford [Kontulis] (b. 1961) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The following is a list of businesses in which the Ford family have held a controlling or otherwise significant interest.
The names of fashionable families who were already Episcopalian, like the Morgans, or those, like the Fricks, who now became so, goes on interminably: Aldrich, Astor, Biddle, Booth, Brown, Du Pont, Firestone, Ford, Gardner, Mellon, Morgan, Procter, the Vanderbilt, Whitney. Episcopalians branches of the Baptist Rockefellers and Jewish Guggenheims even appeared on these family trees.
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