Harry G. Garland
American businessman
Harry George Garland (November 28, 1899 – June 18, 1972) was founder and president of Garland Manufacturing Company in Detroit, Michigan, a company that he founded in 1935. As a result of his contributions to the production of equipment for the armed forces during World War II, he was recognized as one of the leaders of wartime Michigan. He sold Garland Manufacturing in 1947 and turned to a career of rescuing financially distressed companies, often as a court-appointed bankruptcy receiver. His receiverships included the Anker-Holth Manufacturing Co., Richmond & Backus Co., D. J. Healy Shops, Rocky River Paper Mill, and the F.L. Jacobs Company. Mr. Garland also served on the Macomb County, Michigan Board of Supervisors for almost 20 years. The Garland Lodge and Resort in Lewiston, Michigan, is named after him.
Early career
Harry G. Garland learned the trade of tool and die making in the factories of Chicago and Detroit. In 1917 he began his apprenticeship at the American Can Company in Chicago, and worked there for four years. Seeing the opportunities in Michigan, where the automobile industry was in full swing, he moved to Detroit in 1921 to join the Studebaker Company as a journeyman, and in 1923 he moved on to the Chrysler Corporation where he rose to the position of master mechanic at the former Maxwell automobile plant.
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