Leslie Lynch King, Jr., aka President Gerald R. Ford

Gerald R. Ford, 38th President of the United States, was born Leslie Lynch
King, Jr. His grandfather Charles Henry King was apparently born in Fayette
County, PA, although accounts of this differ. The following information appears
in at

http://genforum.genealogy.com/king/messages/2866.html

which is a post at Genforum and is said to come from

http://lbjlib.utexas.edu

which is the Lyndon B. Johnson Library website, although I have been unable to
get onto this server to verify. [Incorrect! The following information comes from
the Ford Library and Museum, and can be found on-line at

http://www.ford.utexas.edu/grf/genealog.htm

ANCESTRY OF GERALD R. FORD

President Gerald R. Ford was born on July 14, 1913 at Omaha, Nebraska and was
originally given the name Leslie Lynch King, Jr. His parents, Leslie Lynch King
and Dorothy Ayer Gardner, had been married on September 7, 1912 at Harvard,
Illinois. Just over two weeks after the birth of their son, Dorothy separated
from her husband... In 1916 she married Grand Rapids businessman Gerald R. Ford
and they soon began calling her son Gerald R. Ford, Jr., although his name was
not legally changed until December 3, 1935.

Leslie Lynch King, President Ford's father, was born on July 25, 1882 at
Chadron, Nebraska. After his divorce from Dorothy Gardner, he married Margaret
Atwood at Reno, Nevada in 1919. Leslie and Margaret King had one son and two
daughters...

Charles Henry King, President Ford's grandfather, was a son of Lynch King and
Rebecca Shepherd. He was born on March 12, 1853 in Perry Township, Fayette
County, Pennsylvania; married Martha Alicia Porter; and died at Los Angeles,
California on February 27, 1930. Martha was born on November 17, 1854 in Indiana
and died on July 14, 1930 at Glendale, California... They had five children, two
sons and three daughters.

The King family is of English origin and descends from Philip King, who
emigrated from Devonshire to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania around 1730.

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More information on the family of Lynch King and Rebecca Shepherd appears in the
Fayette County folder.