Ford Motor Agency, 116 West 6th Street, 1913 - Michigan City, Indiana : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Ford Motor Agency, 116 West 6th Street, 1913 - Michigan City, Indiana / Shook Photos
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| 説明 | Date: 1913Source Type: PostcardPublisher, Printer, Photographer: ArturaPostmark: June 25, 1913, Michigan City, IndianaCollection: Steven R. ShookRemark: This building no longer exists. Note the Orpheum vaudeville posters on the left side of the image.This postcard was sent by Alonzo S. Nichols, owner of the Michigan City Ford Motor Agency, to Jacob C. Rockenberger in Valparaiso, Indiana. Nichol's writes: Sent you the felt washer and book of parts and the charges will be $72.93 "may be" - Regards to you and yours. I am A. S. Nichols.It is possible that the man to the left of the automobile exiting the garage is Alonzo S. Nichols, who would have been 72 years old at the time this photograph was taken. Nichols died on March 23, 1916, and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Michigan City, LaPorte County, Indiana.Nichols transferred title to the property and ownership of his Ford Motor Agency business to Samuel Keene Stout in 1915 and the business became known as Stout's Garage.Apparently, Stout was a lousy businessman since he soon placed classified advertisements in regional newspapers attempting to sell his business. For instance, a classified advertisement for Stout's Garage appears in the December 5, 1917, issue of the Chicago Tribune as follows:============================GARAGE -- FOR SALE -- STOCK AND EQUIPMENT of well established garage, centrally located at Michigan City, Ind.; other business reason for selling. For particulars write or call at STOUT'S GARAGE, Michigan City, Ind.============================It is unclear what Stout's "other business reason for selling" may have been since the 1920 Federal Census for Gary, Lake County, Indiana, shows that he was now working as a wage employee - an auto mechanic for a bakery that he did not own. At this time he was residing in a rented room with his wife and daughter in a house owned by Otto Fiebelkorn at 1933 West Tenth Street in Gary.Samuel K. Stout was born March 2, 1886, in Defiance, Defiance County, Ohio, and died on October 7, 1943, at St. Joseph Hospital at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana, due to a ruptured bowel. His certificate of death indicates that he had been residing in the South Bend area for eighteen years (circa 1925) and was employed by Bendix Aviation.The 1930 and 1940 Federal Census data for St. Joseph County indicate that Stout was a wage earner employed as a mechanic. In 1940 he was a mechanic for a dairy earning an average of $20 per week. Collectively, information suggests Stout had only worked a short time (no more than four years) for Bendix Aviation. Thus, within a period of a decade (1915-1925), Stout was bounding around in residence and employment at Michigan City, Gary, and South Bend.The following biography of Alonzo S. Nichols was obtained from Daniels' A Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record of La Porte County, Indiana, published in 1904:ALONZO S. NICHOLS, assistant postmaster of Michigan City, was born in Milo Center, New York, on the 12th of February, 1841. The founder of the Nichols family in America was Isaac Nichols, who was born at Newport, Rhode Island, in 1748, and married Anna Boon, also of that state, and who was born in 1754. They were among the earliest emigrants to the New Jerusalem and settled at the Garter, at a point long known as Nichols' Corners, but now called Milo Center, where he conducted a tavern. Their grandson, Johnson A., was afterward the proprietor of the same tavern. They were most exemplary and steadfast devotees of the Friends' faith, and the meetings of the society were often held in their house. Isaac Nichols died in 1829, at the age of eighty-one years, and his wife passed away in 1838, in her eighty-fifth year. Their children were George, Alexander, Benjamin and Jacob.Alexander Nichols, the grandfather of Alonzo Nichols, was born in Rhode Island, but later re-moved to New York and settled in Yates county. He was a tanner by trade. He married Polly Chambers, and they became the parents of four children, - Josiah, Johnson, Alexander and Loring , all of whom are now deceased with the exception of Loring, who still resides on the old homestead in Yates county. Alexander Nichols was called to the home beyond when eighty-four years of age, and his wife survived to the extreme old age of ninety-four years. They made their home at Milo Center, and both were members of the Friends Society.Alexander Nichols, Jr., a son of this worthy old couple, was born in New York, and in Yates county, that state, was engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1865, when he moved to Michigan there making his home with his son at Mason until his removal to West Bay City, that state, and in 1875 came to Michigan City, Indiana, where his life's labors were ended in death in 1881, when seventy-two years of age. He married Debora V. Gardiner, whose death occurred in 1863, when fifty-five years of age, and both she and her husband were members of the Baptist church. Two children were born to them, Alonzo and a daughter who died in infancy. Mrs. Alexander Nichols was a daughter of Briah Gardiner, a native of Rhode Island and a sea captain. He made his home at Wickford, that state, and there his death occurred when well advanced in years. He was twice married, his wives being sisters, the oldest and youngest of their father's family.Alonzo S. Nichols grew to years of maturity at Milo Center, New York, the place of his nativity, but when twenty-four years of age he left his childhood home and came west to Mason, Michigan, where he became station agent for the Michigan Central Railroad Company, there remaining for seven years. For the following three years he was engaged in the same capacity and for the same company at West Bay City, Michigan, and in 1875, was transferred to the office in Michigan City, Indiana, serving in the capacity of station agent here for six years, after which he entered the employ of the Louisville & New Albany Railroad Company as general agent, with headquarters in Michigan City. and after ten years with that company he resigned his position to give his entire attention to his own business, that of buying and shipping salt. which he still continues. Mr. Nichols has also been interested in real estate transactions in Indiana and North Carolina.The marriage of Mr. Nichols was celebrated on the 28th of December, 1858, when Miss Frances B. Hathaway, a daughter of Richard H. and Mary (Hetfield) Hathaway, became his wife. Two children have been born of this union, the elder of whom, Stella Adelle, married Frank C. Deming, and died at the age of twenty-seven years; they had three children: Ethel Frances and two who died in infancy. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Nichols, Elmer Arthur, is a railroad engineer and maintains his residence in Indianapolis. He married Emma C. Heise, and their two children are Alonzo Clifford and Harriet Frances.Mr. and Mrs. Nichols are members of the Presbyterian church, and in his fraternal relations the former is a member of Acme Lodge No. 83, F. & A. M.; Michigan City Chapter No. 25, R. A. M.; Michigan City Commandery No. 30, K. T.; Michigan City Council No. 56, R. & S. M.; Indianapolis Valley Consistory; Murat Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; and the Supreme Council of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of thirty-third degree Masons. He also belongs to the National Union and the Elks fraternities. In his political affiliations Mr. Nichols is a Republican, and in 1898 was made the assistant postmaster at Michigan City, which office he still retains, and during the years of 1897 and 1898 served as the deputy sheriff of La Porte county.Sources:Anonymous. 1915. Changes of Ownership and Transfers of Title. Automobile Trade Journal 20(4): 148.Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois; December 5, 1917; Volume 76, Number 291, Page 27, Column 6. Column titled "Business Chances."Daniels, E. D. 1904. A Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record of La Porte County, Indiana. Chicago, Illinois: Lewis Publishing Company. 813 p. (pp. 642-643)The South Bend Tribune, South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana; October 7, 1943; Volume 71, Number, Section 2, Page 13, Column 6. Column titled Local Obituary. Samuel K. Stout."Copyright 2014. The associated text may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of Steven R. Shook. |
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