Howard E. Coffin
Howard Earle Coffin was an American automobile engineer and industrialist. He was one of the founders of the Hudson Motor Car Company with Roy D. Chapin. He was a charter member of The Society of Automotive Engineers and president in 1910, and as one of the dollarayear men served as chairman of the Aircraft Board which organized aircraft production and industrial mobilization during World War I. He retired from the Hudson company in 1930 but acted as a consultant. He died accidentally in 1937.
He was born on September 6, 1873 in West Milton, Ohio, and raised there and in Ann Arbor, Michigan during his early years. He studied mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan. It was there that he constructed his first automobile. It was steampowered, and he used it to deliver the mail around town. He also made use of the universitys engineering shop in 189899 to build his first internal combustion engine.
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