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Elizabeth Parke Firestone (1897–1990) was the mother of Martha Firestone, who wed William Clay Ford Sr., grandson of Henry Ford. She is the daughter of Guy James Parke and Gertrude Chambers, and daughter-in-law of Harvey Firestone.
Elizabeth Parke Firestone, wife of tire magnate Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., cultivated a refined sense of fashion through years of interest in clothing design and collaboration with world-renowned couturiers.
Elizabeth Parke, daughter of a prosperous Decatur, Illinois, businessman, and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., son of the founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, met at a dance at Princeton around 1920. Their 1921 wedding was the most lavish Decatur had ever seen.
Elizabeth Parke, daughter of a prosperous Decatur, Illinois, businessman, and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., son of the founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, married in June 1921. Twenty-five years later, the couple celebrated their wedding anniversary at New York's Ritz Hotel.
Oct 16, 1990 · Elizabeth Parke Firestone, widow of the industrialist Harvey S. Firestone Jr. and a collector of 18th-century decorative arts, died Saturday at Newport Hospital in Rhode Island.
Elizabeth Parke Firestone was the daughter-in-law of Harvey Samuel Firestone Sr., the founder of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, and the wife of Harvey Samuel Firestone Jr., chairman and president of the rubber company after World War II.
Oct 16, 1990 · Elizabeth Parke Firestone, 93, widow of industrialist Harvey S. Firestone Jr. Mrs. Firestone, a collector of precious objects, traveled extensively in Southeast Asia and Africa to study rubber...
