Cadillac
Cadillac was formed from the remnants of the Henry Ford Company. After a dispute between Henry Ford and his investors, Ford left the company along with several of his key partners in March 1902. Ford's financial backers William Murphy and Lemuel Bowen called in engineer Henry M. Leland of Leland & Faulconer Manufacturing Company to appraise the plant and equipment in preparation for liquidating the company's assets. Instead, Leland persuaded the pair to continue manufacturing automobiles using Leland's proven single-cylinder engine. A new company called the Cadillac Automobile Company was established on 22 August 1902, re-purposing the Henry Ford Company factory at Cass Street and Amsterdam Avenue. It was named after French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, who had founded Detroit in 1701.
Edward Coke Crow
On January 27, 1939 Elizabeth Sis Shaw married in Yuma, Arizona, Hardesty James Mcallister, son of Reed Hardesty Mcallister (1891-1961) who founded Mcallister Cadillac in 1922 with James W. Cox, but lived in Whittier California for most of their marriage. While living in Whittier Margaret and Hardesty Mcallister gave birth to Neil Hardesty Mcallister on February 12, 1944 and Reed Edward Mcallister on September 4, 1949. Reed Sr., Elizabeth, Hardesty, Neil and Reed Mcallister successfully operated Mcallister Cadillac for over 70 years and was one of the longest family owned automobile dealership in the nation. The McAllisters sold the dealership to Ara Sevacherian in 1994. It closed in 2009.