The name Studebaker today means a classy automobile from the 1920s. But the name Studebaker in the 1850s meant a first-class wheelbarrow. John M. Studebaker was 20 years old in 1853 when he left the family wagon-making business in South Bend, Indiana and headed west to seek his fortune in the California gold fields. He didn't find gold in the ground, but in the wheelbarrows that miners so desperately needed. Back home, his brothers were making wagons and then carriages under the slogan “Always
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