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.
Full Definition of EGRESS. 1. : the action or right of going or coming out. 2. : a place or means of going out: exit. See egress defined for English-language learners.See egress defined for kids. ADVERTISEMENT. âMark Twain, A Tramp Abroad, 1880. 2  When she had laid the supper-cloth, the bridge was lowered to give her means of egress, and she withdrew for the night. â 3 Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1861. 4  The system lets you lower the truck to ease ingress and egress, and raise it for added ground clearance.