Henry Ford was born July 30, 1863, on a farm in Greenfield Township, Michigan. He was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. Ford did not invent the automobile, but he developed and manufactured the first automobile that many middle class Americans could afford to buy. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. As owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world
He died in 1947 of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 83 in Fair Lane, his Dearborn estate.