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Henry Leland

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Detailed Information

Personal details and public facts.

Profession
Entrepreneur
Died
Mar 26, 1932
Zodiac
Aquarius
Born in
Vermont
About
During the early 1900s, Leland designed both the Cadillac and the Lincoln automobile models, eventually selling the former to General Motors and the latter to the Ford Motor Company. In addition to automobile models, he invented electric barbershop clippers.
Family
He and his seven older 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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