Howard Earle Coffin was one of the first men in this country to build a workable automobile with his bare hands. He helped found three pioneer automobile companies and designed their cars for years. He helped the United States prepare for entry into World War I via an industrial inventory. He advised President Woodrow Wilson and headed the Aircraft Production Board during that war. He was one of the pioneers who founded the first airline service after the war. He developed paved roads, a golf course and a yacht club on St Simons Island, Georgia He named and developed Sea Island, Georgia, into an exclusive residential community and built the famed Cloister resort there. He was one of the first to experiment with using southern pine trees to manufacture paper. He encouraged the use of coarse cotton cloth in the construction of farm-to-market paved roads
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