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Kotz Wagon & Smiths prospered in the wagon business for nearly twenty years building <br />custom wagons for the wealthy despite the overwhelming strength of their competitors <br />located just blocks away from wagon makers Birdsell and Studebaker. <br /> <br />The Kotz’s family story, their incredible contributions to South Bend's development in <br />business, politics, farming, and art, was certainly overshadowed and eventually buried <br />beneath the historical rubble of more recognizable names and companies in South Bend <br />that rose to international notoriety during the industrial revolution. However, the Kotz <br />family was intricately and historically tied to all of these recognizable names such as the