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For 114 years Studebaker built buggies, horse-drawn wagons, trucks and fine automobiles. Brothers Henry and Clem Studebaker began doing business in February, 1852, when they opened a blacksmith shop in a small Indiana town located on the "south bend" of the St. Joseph River, near the Michigan border. On that first day of business, they made 25 cents profit for shoeing one horse, but by the end of that year they had built and sold two wagons.
Three more brothers soon joined the business, most notably John M. Studebaker, known as "Wheelbarrow Johnny." He made a fortune ($8,000) producing and selling wheelbarrows to miners in Hangtown, CA, (now Placerville), during the California gold rush, and brought much needed capital back to South Bend. John ran the company long after the other brothers passed away, and survived until March, 1917. He took the company into the auto business, although Studebaker continued building wagons until 1920. If you've ever seen a Budweiser beer wagon pulled by Clydesdale horses, then you probably saw a Studebaker wagon.
In it's best calendar year of production (1950) Studebaker built 268,099 autos that came to be known as "Bulletnoses" and 52,146 trucks for a total of 320,245 vehicles.
Studebaker was the only company that made the transition from producing horse-drawn wagons to motor vehicles, and also the only auto company to emerge from receivership during the great depression and get back in the business.
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