Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...David Buick (then 46) was a partner in the Detroit plumbing concern of Buick & Sherwood. At that time, Henry Ford was a machinist. R. E. Olds was making his first experiments with the Oldsmobile. Novel was the theory that a gasoline motor could furnish better transportation power than the horse. But Mr. Buick saw the future of the motor car. He sold his Buick & Sherwood interest...
...three years the $100,000 was gone. In its place was an engine that sometimes worked. Mr. Buick advertised in Detroit papers. He wanted a partner with capital. Among replies to the advertisement came a letter from one J. H. Whiting, Flint, Mich., banker and carriage maker. Mr. Whiting was willing to invest in the Buick automobile, provided that Mr. Buick could demonstrate the soundness of his invention by driving it from Detroit to Flint. The first Buick started out from Detroit under its own power, but was dragged back by a team of horses. It had broken down...
...Buick went back to Detroit. He had no money. He was 69. Nobody had a job for him. Finally he became instructor in the Detroit School of Trades. As he grew more feeble...
...Buick died of cancer at Harper Hospital, Detroit, after a month's illness. Shortly before going to the hospital he said: "I'm not feeling sorry for myself or worrying about the past. I'm not accusing anyone of cheating me. It was the breaks of the game that I lost out in the company I founded. I'm looking forward to the future. Money means nothing?except to insure comforts for the future...
Died. David D. Buick, 74, of Detroit, impoverished information clerk, motorcar pioneer; of cancer; in Detroit...