Bill Ford Returns to Ancestral Home Town to Mark Centenary of Ford in Ireland

William Clay Ford, Jr., Executive Chairman of Ford Motor Company and great-grandson of the company’s founder, Henry Ford, today unveiled a plaque and bench in Ballinascarthy, Ireland, to commemorate 100 years of Ford in the country. Ballinascarthy is the village from where Henry Ford’s father, William Ford, and his family emigrated to the U.S. in 1847.