Businessmen Henry Leland

Henry Leland

Living place: Vermont

Birthday: 16-2-1843

Global rank: #91565

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Who is Businessmen Henry Leland?
During the 1900s, Leland designed both Cadillac and Lincoln automobile models, eventually selling the former General Motors and the latter to the Ford Motor Company. In addition to car models, he invented electric barbershop cutting.
A political activist as well as an engineer, he joined the Detroit Citizens League and fought to end the rise of pubs in the city.

Young / Before famous

He trained as an engineer at Brown and Sharpe Rhode Island and went on to work for the gun manufacturer Colt and the Leland and Faulconer engine factories.

Family life info

He and his seven siblings grew up in Vermont as the children of Leander and Zilpha Leland. He later lived in Michigan and Massachusetts with his wife, Ellen Rhoda Hull, and their daughters Martha and Miriam and son Wilfred.

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He was involved in a controversy with General Motors C. E.O. William Durant over whether GM should produce military aircraft parts during the world war years.

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When was Businessmen Henry Leland born?
Henry Leland was born in 16-2-1843, death year is , at the age of 181.
Where is Businessmen Henry Leland's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Henry Leland was born in Vermont, . Là Businessmen, whose Zodiac is Aquarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Cat. Henry Leland's global rank is 91565 and whose rank is 1354 in list of famous Businessmen.
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Events in 1843 and 16-2

Birthday Henry Leland (16-2) in history

  • Day 16-2 year 1804: U.S. frigate Philadelphia, captured and held by Barbary pirates at Tripoli during the Tripolitan War, was set fire to and destroyed by a small group of men led by Stephen Decatur.
  • Day 16-2 year 1918: Lithuania proclaimed its independence from Russia.
  • Day 16-2 year 1923: The tomb of King Tutankhamen, discovered in 1922, was opened.
  • Day 16-2 year 1937: Nylon was patented.
  • Day 16-2 year 1959: Fidel Castro became the leader of Cuba after having ousted the right-wing dictator Fulgencio Batista.
  • Day 16-2 year 1968: The country's first 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville, Ala.
  • Day 16-2 year 1999: Turkish commandos captured Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan in Kenya, sparking seizures of embassies in Europe by Kurds.
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