Talk:Edsel Ford

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Why was he blackballed from joining the freemasons? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jude2 (talk • contribs)

3-5-10 I just edited his death:

Death and legacy[edit]

Edsel Ford died in 1943 in Grosse Pointe Shores of cancer at age 49.

I removed "of cancer" --I have heard more than once --and also found it on the web:

Medical authorities, however, decreed that Ford died of undulant fever, apparently brought on by drinking unpasteurized milk from the Ford dairy herd, at the behest of his father's mistaken belief that all things natural must be good. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.130.69.184 (talk) 16:22, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Name[edit]

Just curious about the unusual name - anything to do with Etzel, i.e. Attila the Hun (in the Nibelungenlied)?--Humphrey20020 (talk) 11:37, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

According to author Neil Baldwin, he was named after one of Henry Ford's schoolmates. In that era giving someone a last name for a first name was not unusual (particularly as it regarded a mother's maiden name. Thus "Johns" is not an iteration of John in Johns Hopkins, but a familial last name).

In the book Fordlandia by Greg Grandin, he gave a few more details about Henry Ford's friend for whom Edsel was named. Unfortunately, I've returned the book to the library, and it was in search of those details that I arrived at this article, which is missing them. Edsel Ruddiman came up on the Web, and searching from that name strongly supports his close ("best friend") relationship with Henry Ford. On the basis of these searches, I'm going to attempt to add something to the article, though I'm not sure of the best way to do it (and I'm ignoring the related topics of Henry Ford's apparently rocky relationship to his son and the possible connections to Edsel's fatal disease). Shanen (talk) 02:00, 30 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Detroit University School[edit]

The article has Edsel going to Hotchkiss, but author Neil Baldwin wrote that Edsel actually attended Detroit University School. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.29.79.73 (talk) 17:54, 21 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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