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Henry Martyn Leland (February 16, 1843 – March 26, 1932) was an American machinist, inventor, engineer, and automotive entrepreneur. He founded the two premier American luxury automotive marques , Cadillac and Lincoln .
March 26, 1932, Detroit, Michigan (aged 89) Henry M. Leland (born February 16, 1843, Danville, Vermont, U.S.—died March 26, 1932, Detroit, Michigan) was an American engineer and manufacturer whose rigorous standards contributed to the development of the automobile. After an apprenticeship as a machinist in Worcester, Massachusetts, he worked ...
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Henry Leland brought style, grace, and a reputation for quality to the American automobile industry. Born in Vermont in 1843, Leland earned degrees from the Universities of Michigan and Vermont. After graduation, he began working as a machinist, and later served as a toolmaker in the United States Arsenal during the Civil War.
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Feb 22, 2009 · THE 19TH-CENTURY MAN: HENRY LELAND. At the dawn of the 20th century, Henry Martyn Leland was already 56 years old, well into an exceptionally vigorous middle age. A farmer’s son from Vermont, Henry Leland became an apprentice machinist the summer before the Civil War. He reached the age of 21 in time to vote for Abraham Lincoln in the 1864 ...
Leland, Henry M. Henry Martyn Leland, founder of Cadillac and Lincoln car companies, brought precision engineering to the automobile business. Born in Barton, Vermont in 1843, he gained machine knowledge working with farm equipment and learned the firearms trade working at Colt before the Civil War. Working at Brown and Sharpe in Rhode Island ...
Born Feb. 16, 1843 - Died March 26, 1932. Henry M. Leland was an inventor, machinist, engineer, and automotive entrepreneur who not only founded two leading American automobile luxury brands, Cadillac and Lincoln, but also introduced to Detroit the concept of interchangeable parts for automobiles. The basic techniques for making interchangeable ...
Sep 23, 2018 · Henry Leland strove to build an even better automobile. Flush with severance cash and stocks, he immediately founded the Lincoln Motor Company (named for his hero, Abraham Lincoln, who he’d helped re-elect in 1864), at first to build Liberty aero engines under license for the aerial battle over Europe.
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