It was the Ford Motor Company that had founded the Kingsford Charcoal Manufacturing Company.

The name ‘Kingsford’ came about when Henry Ford, still manufacturing Model Ts partially out of 100 board feet of wood for the parts such as frame, dashboard, steering wheels and wheels; held a desire to have his own woodland to mill the wood necessary to produce these parts for the Model T; and Edward G. Kingsford, a successful Real Estate agent and the husband of Ford’s cousin by the name of Minnie Flaherty; had assisted Henry Ford in the purchase of several acres of woodland for his company to mill their own wood rather than being dependent on a middleman to supply the Ford Motor Company with the wood necessary to construct each Model T.

For more information on the connection between the Ford Motor Company and the Kingsford Charcoal Manufacturing Company, please see the article embedded below:

https://twitter.com/Ford/status/383681489579147264

Also, feel free to look at this historical document about the Ford Motor Company Woodworking and Charcoal Briquet plants, and this document even includes a picture of a Fordson tractor with a snow plow that had been fabricated by the Ford Motor Company being utilized to clear the snow in the parking lot where employees parked their vehicles.

Click to access Photographs%20of%20Kingsford%2C%20Dickinson%20County%2C%20Michigan%20-%20Ford%20Plant.pdf

Below is the Charcoal Briquet manufacturing and processing plant that Clorox (the current owners of Kingsford since 1973) in the town of Parsons, West Virginia (a town near the West Virginia-Maryland-Pennsylvania border) operates: