Ford Richardson Bryan, 1912-2004

Rouge: Pictured in Its Prime Friends, Families & Forays: Scenes from the Life and Times of Henry Ford Clara: Mrs Henry Ford The Fords of Dearborn Henry's Attic: Some Fascinating Gifts to Henry Ford and His Museum Henry's Lieutenants Beyond the Model T: the Other Ventures of Henry Ford

Ford Richardson Bryan taught high school science after completing his own education at Eastern Michigan University and the University of Michigan. Following World War II, he joined Ford Motor Company as a spectrochemical analyst. Over the course of thirty-three years, he would move on to the Ford Scientific Laboratory, publishing more than seventy technical papers on optical spectroscopy. Following his retirement from Ford, he became a volunteer at the Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village. His yen for writing led him to the Ford Archives, where he found a gold mine of material about his own family and about his favorite subject, Henry Ford.