Wills, C. Harold (Childe Harold), 1878-1940.

C. Harold Wills was an early associate of Henry Ford having worked with him as a draftsman prior to the 1903 founding of the Ford Motor Company. He remained with Ford until 1919 designing cars, experimenting with new steel alloys and contributing much of the expertise that made Ford's mass production methods possible. After leaving Ford, along with another former Ford employee, John R. Lee, he formed the Marysville Land Company and founded the city of Marysville. There he formed his own automobile manufacturing company (the C. H. Wills Co., later Wills Sainte Claire, Inc.) and developed a planned community for its employees. 1933 he joined Chrysler Corporation as chief metallurgist and consultant where he worked until he died in 1940.