21 Facts About Clement Studebaker

Clement Studebaker was an American wagon and carriage manufacturer.

Clement Studebaker was born on March 12,1831, in East Berlin, Adams County, Pennsylvania, to Rebecca and John Studebaker.

At the age of twenty, Clement Studebaker moved to Indiana and taught school in St Joseph County, Indiana.

Clement Studebaker was incorporated in 1868 and Studebaker served as president.

Clement Studebaker was a commissioner from Indiana to the Paris Exposition in 1878 and the World Cotton Centennial in New Orleans.

Clement Studebaker served as president of the board of world fair's managers at Chicago in 1893.

Clement Studebaker was a delegate from the South Bend district to the 1880 Republican National Convention and an at-large state delegate to the 1888 Republican National Convention.

Clement Studebaker served as a member of the South Bend City Council from 1870 to 1872.

Clement Studebaker was a member and served as president of the Carriage Builders' National Association.

Clement Studebaker was a member of the board of trustees of DePauw University.

Clement Studebaker served as a member and president of the Chautauqua Assembly.

Clement Studebaker married Charity Bratt on October 12,1852, in St Joseph County, Indiana.

Clement Studebaker's wife died on March 17,1863, in South Bend.

Clement Studebaker married Anna Harper Milburn in September 1864, in South Bend.

Clement Studebaker was a Methodist and was twice a delegate to the General Conference of the Methodist church.

Clement Studebaker died at his home in South Bend on November 27,1901.

Clement Studebaker was buried at the Clement Studebaker-Milburn Mausoleum at the South Bend City Cemetery.

Clement Studebaker had contributed the funds to build the church in memory of his father-in-law, George Milburn.

In 1911, Clement Studebaker acquired the Everitt-Metzker-Flanders Company of Detroit, later forming the Clement Studebaker Corporation.

Clement Studebaker served in other executive positions as well, including as the president and chairman of the Illinois Power and Light Company, as well as treasurer of the Chicago and South Bend Railroad.

In 1889, Clement Studebaker completed construction of a 26,000-square-foot mansion on West Washington Street in South Bend and named it Tippecanoe Place.