Harry Boyd Earhart

Who was Harry Boyd Earhart?

Harry Boyd Earhart was a successful oil company executive, and founder of the Earhart Foundation. After his death, Earhart's land and mansion in Ann Arbor, Michigan became part of Concordia University, Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1963.

Earhart bought the struggling Buffalo, New York-based White Star Refining Company in 1911, and moved it to Michigan, just as the car industry was beginning to develop there. White Star developed a chain of gas stations and had its own refinery, and was eventually acquired by the Vacuum Oil Company in 1930, which later became Mobil.