Denver County, History of Colorado, BIOS: MANN, Hugo S. (published 1918)
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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II

p. 26-27


HUGO S. MANN.

	Hugo S. Mann is president of the Mann-Aldrich Carriage Company, 
conducting business at No. 1300 Lincoln street in Denver. This business 
was established in October, 1910, and through the intervening period of 
eight years has steadily grown in volume and importance owing to the 
careful direction, business sagacity and unfailing enterprise of its 
president. Mr. Mpnn comes to the west from Massachusetts. He was born 
at Shelburne Falls, that state, on the 15th day of July, 1863, a son of 
the late Hugo Mann, who was a native of Germany and came to America in 
1848, at which time he took up his abode at Shelburne Falls, where he 
resided until called to his final rest in 1900, when he was seventy-one 
years of age. He was a cutler by trade and followed that business 
throughout his entire life. In politics he became an earnest 
republican, was active in political and civic matters and for one term 
represented his district in the state legislature. He married Elizabeth 
Scheding, a native of Germany, who came to America with her parents 
about 1848 and also became a resident of Shelburne Falls, 
Massachusetts, where she was married and still resides. She became the 
mother of seven children, six sons and a daughter.

	Hugo S. Mann, whose name introduces this review, was educated in 
the public schools of his native city and started out to earn his own 
livelihood when a youth of seventeen years. On leaving home he made his 
way westward to Colorado, and came to Greeley, following various 
pursuits. Including that of riding the range in both Colorado and 
Wyoming. In 1883 he took up his abode in Denver and entered upon an 
apprenticeship to the Robertson-Doll Carriage Company. There he learned 
the carriage painting trade, which business he followed for eighteen 
years, after which he became a member of the firm and continued active 
in the management of the business until it was sold in 1910. In that 
year the Mann-Aldrich Carriage Company was organized and business 
established. The company was incorporated in October to engage in the 
manufacture of automobile bodies and tops. The firm is one of the 
largest of the kind operating in the state at the present time, 
specializing in the bodies of pleasure motor cars. The company employs 
on an average of thirty-three workmen and while the business is largely 
local, the trade also extends to neighboring states. The business was 
established at Acoma and at Colfax and began in a small way with eight 
workmen. In 1912 the firm erected the present building, which was put 
up especially for the purpose for which it is being used. It is a 
three-story brick structure, one hundred by one hundred and twenty 
feet, modern in every way and thoroughly equipped in every detail. They 
occupy two-thirds of the building with the business and from the very 
beginning the growth of the trade has been most gratifying and 
satisfactory. As the directing head of the enterprise Mr. Mann displays 
marked business ability and energy, allowing no obstacles nor 
difficulties to bar his path if they can be overcome by persistent and 
earnest effort.

	On the 3d of November, 1891, Mr. Mann was married in Denver, 
Colorado, to Miss Florence G. Higgins, a native of New York city and a 
daughter of George H. and Helen (Tilton) Higgins, representatives of an 
old family of New York city. Mr. Higgins was a well known carpet 
manufacturer there. To Mr. and Mrs. Mann has been born a son, George 
H., whose birth occurred in Denver, July 5, 1894, and who is now with 
the Lord Strathcona Horse (R. C.).

	Mr. Mann's military experience covers six years' service as a 
member of the Colorado Light Artillery. His political allegiance is 
given to the republican party and fraternally he is connected with the 
Knights of Pythias, while his religious faith is that of the Baptist 
church. His is a notably successful career and one which should inspire 
and encourage others, for when he arrived in Cheyenne, Wyoming, he had 
but thirty-five cents in his pocket. His financial condition rendered 
it imperative that he secure immediate employment and his industry and 
capability after he had secured a position brought him promotion until 
eventually his experience, his industry and economy enabled him to 
engage in business for himself. He is today at the head of an important 
industrial interest of Denver and is classed with the representative 
business men of the city.