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As the United States prepared to enter World War I, Henry Leland wanted his Cadillac Motor Car Company to build Liberty V-12 aircraft engines for the military. But Billy Durant, head of corporate parent General Motors and a dedicated pacifist, refused Leland's request. Leland quit in protest, formed Lincoln Motor Company, and produced 6,500 of the engines.
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Leland was the son of Leander Leland and Zilpha Tifft. He married Ellen Rhoda Hull (April 24, 1846 – January 15, 1914), the daughter of Elias Hull. They had three children: Martha Gertrude (1868–1912), Wilfred Chester (November 7, 1869 – 1958), and Miriam Edith (1872–1894).
Feb 22, 2009 · NOTES ON SOURCES. Information for this article came from Wilfred Leland’s book Master of Precision (Chicago, IL: Wayne State University Press, 1996), written by Leland prior to his death in 1958 and completed by his widow, Ottilie Leland, with Minnie Dubbs Millbrook; Griffith Borgeson, “How Leland Lost Lincoln to Ford: The little-known battle of two Henry’s: dedication to an ideal vs ...
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Nov 24, 2016 · With his son, Wilfred, and many poached Cadillac employees, Leland formed a company to manufacture military engines, and named it after the first man he ever voted for, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln Motor Company built some 6,500 V-12 Liberty aircraft engines but at the end of the war, they had their $10 million contract abrogated by the War ...
His son Wilfred, who had been studying medicine, joined him. The company made bicycle and marine engine parts, became Leland & Faulconer in 1894, and by 1899 was manufacturing transmissions for Ransom Olds. In 1902 Leland convinced the backers of Henry Ford’s second failing endeavor, the Detroit Motor Company, that he could revive it. He was ...
Leland and his son Wilfred formed the Lincoln Motor Company in 1917 to build Liberty aircraft engines and, after WWI ended, began building luxury automobiles. However the company became insolvent in 1922, and would be bought out by Henry Ford.
