Early Life. Gerald R. Ford Jr. was born Leslie Lynch King Jr. on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska, but kept neither his name nor his hometown for long. In just weeks, he was whisked away by his mother, Dorothy Ayer Gardner, to her parents' home in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Fess definition, an ordinary in the form of a broad horizontal band across the middle of an escutcheon. See more.
Define fess up. fess up synonyms, fess up pronunciation, fess up translation, English dictionary definition of fess up. Verb 1. fess up - admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error; the writer of the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his handwriting make a...