Biography
Ferguson was born at Growell, near Dromore, County Down, the son of a farmer. The Irish census of 1901 shows the young Harry Ferguson aged 16, listed as a 'farmers son' at the family farm 'Growell' at Ballykeel.
In 1902 Ferguson went to work with his brother Joe in his bicycle and car repair business. Whilst working there as a mechanic, he developed an interest in aviation, to the extent of visiting airshows abroad. In 1904, he began to race motorcycles.
Read more about this topic: Harry Ferguson
Famous quotes containing the word biography:
“Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.”
—Rebecca West [Cicily Isabel Fairfield] (1892–1983)
“The death of Irving, which at any other time would have attracted universal attention, having occurred while these things were transpiring, went almost unobserved. I shall have to read of it in the biography of authors.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle.”
—Richard Holmes (b. 1945)