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

EDISON As I KNOW HIM

it is from this ear-boxing that Edison's deafness
dates.
It is true that the conductor did find the fire
and that he ordered Edison and his laboratory
out at the next station, which was Smith's Creek,
Michigan, but the ear-boxing never happened.
(The Smith's Creek station, by the way, is now
erected brick by brick at Dearborn. Sixty-seven
years after Edison was thrown off, he was escorted
from a train at that same depot by the President of the United States, Herbert Hoover.)
There is a doubt whether it could ever have happened, for Edison, although he had been a weak
child, was already gaining some of the strength
and physique which have carried him through the
years. He was not at all a fighter-he regards
fighting as time-wasting-but he could take care
of himself and was not at all the sort of person
to be cuffed about by anyone. The deafness began
quite differently. He pointed out the spot to me
just outside of Fraser, Michigan.
"I was delayed in waiting on some of my newspaper customers," he told me, "and the train
started ahead. I ran after it and caught the rear
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