Studebaker enters receivership and teeters on the brink of closing. The company reorganizes and resumes production under court supervision. President Albert Erskine is relieved of his duties.

Studebaker enters a five-car factory-backed team at the Indianapolis 500.   Studebaker Special #22 driven by Cliff Bergere leads the team with a 3rd place finish.

Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne takes part-time employment in Studebaker’s Sales Department. Rockne served as a Studebaker spokesman until his death in 1931.

Studebaker discontinues all horse-drawn vehicle production and begins transferring automobile production from Detroit to South Bend.   A 1920 Light Six is Studebaker’s first South Bend-built automobile.

The Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company acquires the Everitt-Metzker-Flanders Company of Detroit to form The Studebaker Corporation. Electric vehicle production is halted.

The first Studebaker Electric automobile sold to F.W. Blees of Macon, Missouri.

Clement Studebaker commissions noted architect Henry Ives Cobb to design his new home Tippecanoe Place. The forty-room mansion is completed in 1888.

A devastating fire destroys over half of the Studebaker plant. The company promptly rebuilds.

John M. Studebaker joins the firm, buying elder brother Henry’s share of the business.

Henry and Clement Studebaker open the H & C Studebaker blacksmith shop at the corner of Michigan and Jefferson Streets in downtown South Bend.