Gerald R. Ford was born July 14, 1913. His birth name was Leslie Lynch King Jr. He was born in the home of his paternal great grandparents, in Omaha. This home burned down in 1971. When he was 16 days old his mother took the baby and left. The father had threatened the baby, his mother and his nurse maid with a knife. She moved in with family in Illinois, and then Grand Rapids, Michigan where her parents lived. She was granted custody of the baby through a divorce procedure.
A couple years later she remarried, and the baby took his step father's name, Gerald Rudolff Ford. The adoption became official in 1935 and his name was changed to Gerald Rudolph Ford. Gerald Ford was the 38th president of the United States. His presidential library is in Ann Arbor, Michigan at the University of Michigan. The presidential museum is in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His birth site is in Omaha.
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| model of the birth home |
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| This site needs another visit when the gardens will be in bloom |
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| A pattern of bricks |
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