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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).
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.
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.
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.
Henry M. Leland, the former president of the Cadillac Motor Car Company, built the first Lincoln motorcar. Here are some of the fascinating people who forged the Lincoln legacy. As Henry Ford, standing left, and Henry Leland look on, Edsel Ford and Wilfred Leland, seated left and right, sign the agreement transferring ownership of the Lincoln ...
Nov 24, 2016 · On June 10, 1922, five months after the acquisition, Ford’s Executive Secretary Ernest Liebold arrived at the factory to demand Henry and Wilfred Leland’s resignation, and had the 79-year-old removed from the premises.
Sep 14, 2008 · Henry Martyn Leland was the father of the mass-produced luxury car in the United States. And his son, Wilfred, might well be called the luxury car's favorite uncle.
