Title	Studebaker Wagon
Subject	Business and Labor Transportation Carts & wagons
Place	Ashland (Ohio) Ashland County (Ohio)
Description	John Clement Studebaker, who did the woodwork, and George Myers, who did the iron work, created this 73" x 37" x 47" (185.42 x 93.98 x 119.38 cm) wagon. Both men had sons that founded internationally successful businesses, Studebaker Company of South Bend, Indiana (automobile manufacturers) and F.E. Myers and Brothers Company of Ashland, Ohio (manufacturers of pumps and farming equipment). John Clement Studebaker, a blacksmith and wagon maker from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, immigrated to Ashland, Ohio in 1836, and worked as a miller. By the 1850s, Studebaker was deep in debt. His generosity towards those in need and failure to collect debts caused him to lose the family farm. In 1851, the Studebakers moved west again, this time to South Bend, Indiana, where John's sons Henry and Clement Studebaker started the Studebaker Manufacturing Company in 1868. By the 1880s they were the largest wagon manufacturers in the world, and in the twentieth century they became one of the few wagon companies to successfully switch to manufacturing automobiles. In 1870, the Myers brothers established a farm implement business. They then engineered and manufactured the first double-acting hand pump, which delivered water on both the up and down strokes. From this modest beginning, the Myers pump line grew and evolved to include wastewater removal and industrial pumps and systems. In 1960 the Myers family sold the business, but it still remains in Ashland under the Myers name. The Myers family donated money for the Myers Band Shell, Myers Hall on the Ashland University Campus, and the John C. Myers Convocation Center.
Creator	Studebaker, John Clement Myers, George
Date of Original	1848
Source	Historical object(s) or artifact(s); Barn
Submitting Institution	Ashland County Historical Society and Museum
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Type	StillImage
File Name	Om255_780284_001.tif
Image Height	1128
Image Width	2912
File Size	788.509 KB
Format	picture objects

Studebaker Wagon

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