Individual Details

From "The Studebaker Family in America - 1736-1976" by Walter CARLOCK, Alvin Girard FAUST and E. Irene MILLER; 1976; page 179:
"John moved with his parents in Miami Co., OH in 1818. He had a diary in which he said of himself, "I was sent, when quite a small boy, to learn shoemaking. We carried a kit from house to house. My boss soon ran out of work. Then I was sent, a worthless boy, to a Mr. ROBINSON to learn carding & fulling (which business he followed for a number of years). He worked with me on the principle, 'If you are a man, be a man,' and I soon learned to be obedient and kind.
' He was baptized 1835 by Elder John DARST in the area of the Lost Creek Church, Miami Co., OH.
' John operated a woolen mill from 1832 to 1839, when he sold this mill to purchase an 80 acre farm on which he lived for 10 years. In 1849 he started another woolen business, this time at Pleasant Run, OH. In 1864, he leased out the mill and moved to Troy, OH where he worked in a mercantile business. In 1865 his mill was entirely destroyed by fire, involving a loss of $22,000. Soon after this he went to Lawrence, KS where in 1866 he was elected to the ministry as Elder. He again engaged in the woolen business, but three years later sold his interest and in 1870 returned to Miami Co., OH, where he erected another mill on the same site where his former mill burned. After 4 years (1874) he sold this mill to his son, Rudy, and went on his daughter's farm near Troy, OH where he farmed for three years raising stock. Then he bought a 40 acre farm and became a breeder of Jersey cattle and ran a dairy; he was known as "Factory John".
' After the death of son-in-law, James Quinter, he and his wife moved to Huntingdon, PA and spent a year with their lonely daughter, Fanny. A longing for the familiar scenes of childhood seems to have brought him back to Ohio in 1889 where he remained until death."

From "The Brethren Encyclopedia"; 1984; page 1787:
"STUDEBAKER. John (CB), 6-2-1813/2-10-1891; Lawrence, KS; Miami Co., OH (?), (1870); Huntingdon, PA; 'GM' (1891) 157. = STUDEBAKER, John (Troy, OH) ?"

Birth	2 APR 1812	Bedford Co., PA
Marriage	14 JAN 1834	Miami Co., OH - Nancy RUDY
Death	10 FEB 1891	near Troy, Miami Co., OH

Spouse	Nancy RUDY ( - )
Child	Isaac T. STUDEBAKER (1835 - 1864)
Child	Fannie STUDEBAKER (1837 - 1921)
Child	Rudy STUDEBAKER (1840 - 1929)
Child	Henry STUDEBAKER (1842 - 1903)
Child	Mary STUDEBAKER (1844 - 1936)
Child	Eliza Lida STUDEBAKER (1847 - )
Child	Hannah Letitia STUDEBAKER (1851 - 1902)

Father	John Wesley STUDEBAKER (1787 - 1833)
Mother	Hannah ULERY/ULRICH (1789 - 1862)
Sibling	Samuel STUDEBAKER (1808 - 1890)
Sibling	Mary STUDEBAKER (1809 - 1887)
Sibling	Jacob W. STUDEBAKER (1811 - 1880)
Sibling	Elizabeth STUDEBAKER (1813 - )
Sibling	David STUDEBAKER (1814 - 1863)
Sibling	Margaret STUDEBAKER (1815 - )
Sibling	George W. STUDEBAKER (1818 - 1905)
Sibling	Daniel STUDEBAKER (1820 - 1893)
Sibling	Catherine/Catharine STUDEBAKER (1821 - 1896)
Sibling	Phoebe STUDEBAKER (1823 - )
Sibling	Stephen STUDEBAKER (1824 - 1894)
Sibling	Hannah STUDEBAKER (1828 - 1895)
Sibling	Lydia STUDEBAKER (1830 - 1869)
Sibling	Isaac STUDEBAKER (1832 - 1841)