The article below appeared in NPR: News and Public Media for North Central Florida from the University of Florida in Gainesville.
Meet Alfred Ford, the great-grandson of Henry Ford and a Gainesville resident
When most people hear the name “Ford,” they think of cars. But one heir to the company wanted to change that in his own life.
He’s doing so from his home in Gainesville.
Alfred Ford, 71, is the great-grandson of American industrialist and founder of the Ford Motor Company, Henry Ford. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1950 to Josephine Ford, the only granddaughter of Henry. That was three years after Henry died in 1947.
The idea of working for the family company never appealed to Alfred Ford as he was growing up, even though members of the family, such as his grandfather, Edsel Ford, gave their lives to the business.
“I was always interested in the bigger questions. Who am I? Why am I here? How big is the universe? What’s on the other side of the universe? Who was God? What is my relationship with God?” Ford said.
He said he didn’t hear a lot of stories about his late great-grandfather. However, he did know one thing.
“Henry Ford kind of had two different sides to him,” his great-grandson said. “One of them was a genius, engineer and businessman. And the other one was a searcher after the truth and various religious paths. So I took after that side of it.”
And so Alfred Ford did that by joining the Hare Krishna movement.
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