Howard Earle Coffin
Howard Coffin' (September 6, 1873 – November 21, 1937), born near West Milton, Ohio, raised there and in Ann Arbor, Michigan, was an automotive engineer and industrialist. He completed his preparatory education at a boarding school in Tennessee and the Ann Arbor High School. He studied mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan. He became chairman of the Aircraft Production Board which organized U.S. aircraft production and industrial mobilization during World War I.[1]
The board was headed by Howard E. Coffin, one of the "dollar-a-year-men," a group of influential financiers and industrialists appointed to production boards and paid a dollar to meet the federal requirement that those providing civil service be employees of the government. Coffin was widely acknowledged for his role in fostering the standardization of automobile construction. He was a cofounder of the Hudson Motor Car Company, president of the Society of Automotive Engineers, and had before the war recognized and advocated the benefits of patriotism for profit, or private industry building armaments for the government. Keen to break down the barriers between public expenditure and private ownership, Coffin had called World War I "the greatest business proposition since time began."[2]
References
- ↑ Howard E. Coffin on English Wikipedia
- ↑ Robertson, 2003, p. 13. Citing National Dictionary of American Biography, J.T. White, 1926, and Biddle, Barons of the Sky, p. 26.
| Names | Howard Earle Coffin |
|---|---|
| Countries | US |
| Locations | Miami county, OH, Ohio, Ann Arbor, MI, Washtenaw county, MI, Michigan, Tennessee |
| Occupations | financier, founder, automotive engineer, industrialist, mechanical engineer |
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| Affiliations | Aircraft Production Board, Hudson Motor Car Company, Society of Automotive Engineers |
| Family name | Coffin |
| Birth date | 1873-09-06 |
| Death date | 1937-11-21 |
| Wikidata id | Q5919515 |
