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- Book, "Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway," 1915 - In 1912, Carl Fisher, an automobile headlight entrepreneur, had the ambitious idea to create the first transcontinental highway. His biggest advocate was Henry Joy, Packard Motor Car Company president. Joy suggested naming the road after Abraham Lincoln, for patriotic appeal and the symbolic connection with Lincoln's role preserving the Union. In this book, Gladding relates her cross-country travels.
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Book, "Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway," 1915
In 1912, Carl Fisher, an automobile headlight entrepreneur, had the ambitious idea to create the first transcontinental highway. His biggest advocate was Henry Joy, Packard Motor Car Company president. Joy suggested naming the road after Abraham Lincoln, for patriotic appeal and the symbolic connection with Lincoln's role preserving the Union. In this book, Gladding relates her cross-country travels.