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The Lincoln Motor Company was founded in August 1917 by Henry Leland and his son Wilfred. Among the founders of Cadillac, Leland had sold Cadillac to General Motors in 1909; staying on as an executive, he left in 1917 over a dispute with GM President William Durant regarding war production.
Odessa (/ ˌ oʊ ˈ d ɛ s ə /) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Ector County with portions extending into Midland County. [5]Odessa's population was 114,428 at the 2020 census, making it the 34th-largest city in Texas; it is the principal city of the Odessa metropolitan statistical area, which includes all of Ector County.
The Odessa American is a newspaper based in Odessa, Texas, that serves Odessa and the rest of Ector County. [ 2 ] The paper is particularly notable for its Pulitzer Prize -winning picture of Baby Jessica McClure when she was rescued from her well in neighboring Midland, Texas .
The Odessa metropolitan statistical area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of one county, Ector, in West Texas, anchored by the city of Odessa. As of the 2020 census , the MSA had a population of 165,171.
Odessa is located at (47.3332, -118.6882) in southeastern Lincoln County near the border with Adams County. [6] Washington State Routes 21 and 28 have a junction in Odessa. State Route 21 connects Odessa with U.S. Route 2 to the north and Interstate 90 to the south. State Route 28 provides east-west connections with communities in Lincoln ...
Lincoln is an unincorporated community in central Lee County, Texas, United States. It lies along Highway 21 , north of the city of Giddings , the county seat of Lee County. [ 2 ] Although Lincoln is unincorporated, it has a post office , with the ZIP code of 78948.
Among the injured were three police: a Texas state trooper, a Midland police officer, and an Odessa police officer. The youngest victim was a wounded 17-month-old child. [ 13 ] One of the dead was a USPS postal worker, age 29, who had been driving the postal service truck Ator hijacked.
The first serving president to ride in a car was President William McKinley, who briefly rode in a Stanley Motor Carriage Company steam car on July 13, 1901. [9] According to the United States Secret Service, it was customary for them to follow the presidential horse-and-buggy on foot, but that with the popularization of the automobile, the Secret Service purchased a 1907 White Motor Company ...