Henry Bourne Joy

Who was Henry Bourne Joy?

Henry Bourne Joy was President of the Packard Motor Car Company, and a major developer of automotive activities as well as being a social activist.

In 1913, Joy and Carl Graham Fisher were driving forces as principal organizers of the Lincoln Highway Association, a group dedicated to building a concrete road from New York to San Francisco. After the first several years, Fisher had become more involved instead with creation of the north-south Dixie Highway project and became a developer of Miami Beach, but Joy was dedicated to the Lincoln Highway for the long-haul. Naming it after former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was one of the moves Joy led, and his Lincoln Highway project was completed in his lifetime, despite lack of financial support by automotive leaders such as Henry Ford.

Joy was also a prominent figure on both sides of prohibition during that turbulent era.