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Henry Ford was a brilliant machinist, inventor, and business tycoon, but he would have never made it without his reluctant business partner James J. Couzens. There’s a good chance, though, that you’ve never heard of Couzens. Most people don’t know that before starting the Ford Motor Company in 1903, Henry Ford was a part of two failed automobile enterprises. The first was the Detroit Automobile Company, which folded after Ford failed to ship a working automobile. The second (the Henry Ford Company), eventually became known as the Cadillac Automobile Company after some failed partnership dealings. There was one big reason for [...]