He was welcomed into East DetroitвЂ™s mostly German community. August, known as вЂњGus,вЂќ was classically German in attitude, style, and physique he sported a thick, bushy moustache his entire life. Soon afterward, the young August Fruehauf struck out on his own to seek his fortune. There, August was exposed to the skills of the millвЂ™s most experienced artisans and developed a talent for shaping metal at a forge. Moffat & Eatherly had high standards and their employees would quickly be fired if they cut corners. When August had completed his secondary education in 1884, he worked at Moffat & Eatherly, where his father had advanced to a position as the millвЂ™s engineer. He earned money during the holidays by dipping Christmas trees into colored paint, a tradition practiced by German immigrants in Michigan. JohnвЂ™s Lutheran School in Fraser, a community adjacent to Erin Township. In addition to raw lumber, the millвЂ™s metal works and smithies provided old world excellence in metal supplies like grates, door hinges, decorative fencing, grillwork and even construction nails.Д¬harles and Sophia FruehaufвЂ™s sixth child was a son named August Charles, nicknamed вЂњGus.вЂќ August attended St. Moffat & Eatherly provided the materials for many prominent Detroit buildings of the era. The sawmillвЂ™s business benefited from Hugh MoffatвЂ™s election as the mayor of Detroit, where he served two terms between 18.

Hugh Moffat and Florence Eatherly (both immigrants from Scotland) were key figures in the development of Detroit and in its mid-nineteenth century building boom. In the early years he supported his growing family by working at the respected Moffat & Eatherly industrial sawmill on the eastern side of Detroit. Charles FruehaufвЂ™s status as a respectable member of his community is indicated by his appointment as treasurer of Erin Township in 1883, a job he held until 1893. Д¬harles was a blacksmith, machinist and farmer. Charles and Sophia Fruehauf had ten children, all born in Michigan. They immigrated to the United States in the mid-nineteenth century and settled in Erin Township in Macomb County, Michigan, twenty miles from Detroit, a region heavily settled by German immigrants. About 1855 he met and married Christina Sophia Hoffmeyer (1835вЂ“1919), who was known by her middle name. Family BackgroundДЄugustвЂ™s father, Charles Fruehauf (1824вЂ“1894) was born in Prussia. The company invented and introduced to the American market such products as hydraulic lift gates, refrigerated trailers, flatbed trailers, heavy-duty carryalls for tanks and heavy machinery and over 125 patented types of trailers for the Defense Department. Fruehauf Trailers was the original and most widely recognized semi-trailer brand for over fifty years and the General Motors of truck trailers in its heyday. This business changed freight transportation in America. Fruehauf responded by inventing a device that transformed his business and enabled it to grow into a world-renowned truck-trailer manufacturing company. In 1914, Frederick Sibley, a Detroit lumber tycoon and a frequent customer, asked Fruehauf to convert a horse-drawn wagon into a trailer to be pulled by a Model T roadster to haul a boat he owned to his vacation house. This opened the opportunity of expanded markets to the whole country.ДЄugust Fruehauf went into business as a blacksmith and carriage maker in Detroit in the 1890s. The Fruehauf Trailer Company facilitated the growth of continental transportation as a viable alternative to rail that brought efficient transportation from the farmer's gate and the factory's loading door.

Family Dissent and the End of the Fruehauf CompanyДЄugust Charles Fruehauf's story and invention of the truck trailer is an integral part of the nation's transportation history in the last century.

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White passed away in February 1983 at the age of 76. White last acted in the crime drama 'Flamingo Road' (1949) with Joan Crawford. She also appeared in 'Telephone Operator' (1938) and 'Annabel Takes a Tour' (1938). In the latter half of her career, she continued to act in 'Jimmy the Gent' (1934) with James Cagney, the drama 'The Big City' (1937) with Spencer Tracy and the drama 'King of the Newsboys' (1938) with Lew Ayres. She also appeared in 'The Naughty Flirt' (1931).

She continued to act in productions like 'The Show of Shows' (1929) with Frank Fay'The Widow From Chicago' (1930) and 'Showgirl in Hollywood' (1930). She also appeared in 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' (1928), 'The Big Noise' (1928) and 'Broadway Babies' (1929). Early on in her acting career, White landed roles in various films, including 'American Beauty' (1927), 'The Sea Tiger' (1927) and 'The Private Life of Helen of Troy' (1927). Alice White was an actress who had a successful Hollywood career.

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