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They then called her son Gerald Rudolff Ford, Jr. King had first hit his wife on their honeymoon for smiling at another man.Īfter two and a half years with her parents, on February 1, 1916, Dorothy married Gerald Rudolff Ford, a salesman in a family-owned paint and varnish company. According to Ford's biographer Lou Cannon, the Kings' separation and divorce was the result of an incident which occurred a few days after Ford's birth, when Leslie King threatened to kill Dorothy while brandishing a butcher knife. Ford later said his biological father had a history of hitting his mother. Ford's paternal grandfather Charles Henry King paid child support until shortly before his death in 1930.
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Dorothy Gardner divorced King in December 1913 and she gained full custody of her son. From there, she moved to the home of her parents, Levi Addison Gardner and Adele Augusta Ayer in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She took her son with her to the Oak Park, Illinois home of her sister Tannisse and brother-in-law, Clarence Haskins James.
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Dorothy separated from King just sixteen days after her son's birth. His abusive birth father was a wool trader and son of a prominent banker Charles Henry King. He would later change his name because his birth father, Leslie Lynch King Sr., was physically abusive to Ford's mother and he preferred to honor his mother's second husband, a much kinder man and more of a father figure to the future 38th President. When he was born his name was Leslie Lynch King Jr. On J(108 years ago today) Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr.