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In order to view this proof accurately, the Overprint Preview Option must be checked in Acrobat Professional or Adobe Reader. Please contact your Customer Service Representative if you have questions about ἀnding the option. Job Name: -- /330792t [ II. THE HOMESTEAD ] The natural thing to do is to work. -HENRY FORD 7. Changing the guard at Dearborn Arsenal, 1867. Dearbornville had been named for General Henry Dearborn, hero in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 and later Secretary of War; the Arsenal was a main military depot of the government from 1833 until 1878, when it was abandoned because the United States became self-conscious at having a military installation so near its best neighbor. The Arsenal covered several hundred acres, on which there were eleven buildings. At one time there were twelve buildings, but the twelfth 7. was unofficial: Thompson's Tavern. When a survey showed the Tavern stood on government land, an officious commandant ordered his reluctant troops to tear it down and stack the lumber outside the boundary. The sober settlers in the Ford settlement and the Scotch settlement 8. took this news without a quiver. But thirsty frontiersmen took the news hard. A mob was formed of the most distinguished wolf-killing, bear-slaying citizens; they marched on the Arsenal for a free-swinging riot. As always, the government won. 8. Some of Henry Ford's "uncles," not true uncles, but cousins of his father. These were the men who greeted Henry's father, William Ford, when he arrived from Ireland: Samuel and James, standing, and George, William, and Henry Ford, sitting. The William above was called William North; Henry's father was called William South. The Uncle Henry on the right is the one for whom Henry Ford was named. He helped organize the first Dearborn band in 1862, and played the fife. One of Henry's first teachers, Frank R. Ward, played flute in the same band, and they paraded and played in the Dearborn 8 In order to view this proof accurately, the Overprint Preview Option must be checked in Acrobat Professional or Adobe Reader. Please contact your Customer Service Representative if you have questions about ἀnding the option. Job Name: -- /330792t The Homestead bandwagon, almost exactly like the one below. 9. The Plymouth bandwagon, 1868. This was "fresh after the war," as they said in those days, and all the bandsmen wore Phil Sheridan mustaches or Abe Lincoln beards. The special bandwagons were Brewster green, with yell?w spoke wheels and a flag socket next to the whip socket. Ford, as a collector of Americana, found and restored the Dearborn bandwagon in which Uncle Henry had played-it is in the Ford Museum today. He could not find an oldtime picture of it, but he did find this picture, taken in Plymouth only a few miles away. He must have liked it very much, for he had a huge enlargement framed for the wall of his farm-office hideout, where he could see it every day. This has the true American look of those times, when Henry Ford was five years old: the hitching racks for the horses, the town square for big dOings, the wooden sidewalks, the emptiness , the quiet. William Ford walked into DearbornviiIe, the uncles put up the pack of new Ford immigrants, and William went to work. There was always work to be done and not just on frontiers, as his son would preach years later: "More men seek wages than seek work. If work be put first, then we shall get somewhere-for the amount of work to be done is always unlimited." As was the custom, Father John Ford went immediately into debt, buying eighty acres for $350. The family anxiety was never food or shelter or clothing but simply cash, actual money, to pay the debt. William started as a carpenter for the Michigan Central Railroad and farmed with all his might in whatever time he had to spare. A few years later John Ford was free and clear, with a house on Joy Road, his sons grown, and his daughters growing. Then William Ford, saving his money hard, went with his cousin Henry (the fife-playing uncle) to do some carpenter work for one Patrick O'Hern. Patrick O'Hern (Henry Ford always insisted the name was properly Ahern, but he was a poor speller) was another man of Cork, born at Fair Lane, Cork City on March 17, 1804. When times...

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