Edison as I know him, by Henry Ford, in collaboration with Samuel Crowther.

EDISON As I KNOW HIM
all time-as the record of the experience of a
very great man and as an inspiration to Amrerican
youth.
Edison comes of fine, solid American stock.
His ancestors, emigrating from Holland in 1730,
took up land along the Passaic River in New Jersey not far from where Edison has spent most of
his life. His father, Samuel Edison, was a man
considerably above the average in general ability,
with something of that same distaste that is
shown by his son in keeping an interest in any
project or discovery the moment that the chief
difficulties are overcome and the thing is started
on its way. His mother was the daughter of the
Reverend John Elliott, a Presbyterian minister.
For both of his parents Mr. Edison has a very
high respect. They could not entirely understand
him as a boy, nor could anyone else. They did
very mightily help him to help himself, in the
strong belief that he knew what he was doing or
at least might some day know. His mother gave
him a start in education by her personal teaching
and encouraged him in his reading in those subjects that most interested him. Edison would
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