Ford helped his father with the harvest and also attended school in a one-room schoolhouse. At age fifteen he left school to work on his father's farm full time. Ford disliked school and farm life, so at age 16, he walked to Detroit in search of employment. ... He chartered the ship Oskar II, and it sailed from Hoboken, New Jersey on the 4th of December in1915. ...

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