The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-03-01
0U|CLEY GOES INTO
BUSINESS FOR SELF
Buys Automobile Branch OF
Studebaker Company in
Intermountain States.

After a service covering period Oh
more than twenty-eight years with the
studcbaker Bros. company, q. A.
Quigley yesterday retired from the
management of the local and internoun-
tain interests Of that corporation. NJ
Quigley has purchased the automop'le
branch Of the Studebaker business and
will distribute cars in Utah, Idaho. west
ern Wyoming, eastern Nevada and east
ern Oregon. -.
ness life has been spent with the etuoe-
baker company. Except for few years
in his boyhood with A. A. Cooper at
Dubuque, Ia, Mr.. Quigley has had no
other employer. =,
It was on January l, 1886, that Mr.,
Qugley entered the Studebaker employ
Us a travelling salesman, Ho was as
signed the states Of Montana, Mime
sofa and North Dakota Within short
time he attracted the attention of the
Studebaker management by securing
one of the largest single orders TIE
company at that time had ever received.
Large Wagon Sale.
This was the sale of $50 wagons and
twelve buckboards to James j. Hill Tor
use in tho construction Of the Great
Northern railroad from Devil S lake, N
D., to Great Falls, Mont. The sale was
made directly to Mr.. Hill, himself a
keen business man and shrewd buyer,
The fact that Mr.. Quigley negotiated
this transaction IN the face of sharp
competition and without shading STAN
dard prices won for him high commen-
dation and carly promotion.
HE q aftar his first two Vn1rS'
work was extended to cover Colorado,
New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming and
various points in Mexico. After sey-
eral years ON the road Mr.. Quigley was
called, in 1892, to the Studebaker head.
quarters ut South Bend, Ind, and made
assistant general manager of all branch
houses
The business of the Studebaker peo-
pie In Salt Lake had, meanwhile, been
unsatisfactory. Mr.. Quigley was sent
here to see what could be done and to
take temporary charge. There was lit
tie thought in the minds of himself or
his employers that he would become a
permanent resident of this city.
But he became deeply interested in
building up the business. That he was
most successful in this is evidenced by
the figures The year before Mr., Quig-
ley took charge the Utah branch of
Studebaker Brothers did a business ae-
grogating less than $4,000. Last year
business in excess Of Sl,500,000 was
done.
While this increase was the result of
palnstaking, persistent, intelligent eff
fort, Mr.. Quigley has always found time
to bear his full shnre and very often
more than any one man g share of the
civic burden. He was one of the or.
ganizers and is an expresident Of the
Commercial club. He also was one of
the founders Of the traffic bureau Of
that organization.
In all works calculated to forward the
best interests of Salt Lake City and the
intermountain west Mr.. Quigley has tax.
ell prominent part. He IS member
Of the Alta, Commercial. Country, Ten.
mis-, Elks, Rotary and the Boise Com.
mercial clubs.
Mr.. Quigley is succeeded as manager
OF the vehicle department of Studebafer
Brothers by Y, w. Naylor, himself a
long time employee of the same firm
practically all of which was under Mr.,
Quigley 8 direction. Mr.. NayIor arriyed
from Kansas City on Thursday and took
charge yesterday.
Quigley Entertains.
Mr.. .Quigley last night delipbtfullv
entertaSned number of his olnso 80