ASHLAND COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: STUDEBAKER, Jacob F.
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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF INDIANA
Richard S. Peale & Co., Publishers, 1875
Page 683

                          JACOB F. STUDEBAKER
        Jacob Franklin Studebaker, the fifth son of the family, and the
junior member of the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company, was born in
Ashland county, Ohio, May twenty-sixth, 1844, and is consequently now in
his thirty first year. At the age of eight, young Jacob followed with the
family train to South Bend, but afterwards returned to Tiffin, Ohio, where
he learned the trade of wagon and carriage making with Peter Van Ness.
Returning to St. Joseph county, he engaged three years at farming, before
becoming a member of the company. He is the secretary of the Studebaker
Brothers Manufacturing company, and has the sole charge of the carriage
works, a post for which he is peculiarly fitted. No man in the west,
perhaps, has a better knowledge of the wants and needs of the people in his
specialty, and very few persons have better taste and judgement in all
matters relating to the manufacture of fine carriage work.

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