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Collett Everman “C.E.” Woolman. He was the founder of Delta Air Lines. Woolman was born in Bloomington, Indiana, USA but grew up in Urbana, Illinois. He graduated from the University of Illinois, where he received a B.A. in agriculture. Woolman married Helen H. Fairfield (d. 1962) in 1916 with whom he had two daughters.
When Collett Everman Woolman was born on 8 October 1889, in Bloomington Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States, his father, Albert Jefferson Woolman, was 28 and his mother, Daura Campbell, was 24. He married Helen Peters Fairfield on 8 August 1916, in Champaign, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters.
Collett Everman Woolman, commonly known as C.E. Woolman, or "Wooly" to his employees, was an airline entrepreneur who led Delta Air Lines from its beginnin...
Collett E. Woolman Biography American entrepreneur (1889–1966) Collett Everman Woolman (October 8, 1889 – September 11, 1966), commonly known as " Wooly " to his employees, was an airline entrepreneur best known as the founder of Delta Air Lines.
C. E. Woolman's name is synonymous with Delta Air Lines. He raised the capital for the purchase of the company in 1928 (named Delta Air Transport, Inc. in 1929) and stepped down as chief executive officer in 1965.
C. E. Woolman and Delta Air Lines T he survival and eventual growth of Delta Air Lines during the tumul-tuous early days of the airline industry in the 1920s and 1930s was due in large part to the character of its director, Collett Everman (C. E.) Woolman. Simultaneously visionary and practical, risk-taking and fiscally pru-
