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Originally Posted by higgenslake
"Milk money"=Wilson's Dairy
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Asa "Ace" Wilson Sr. and his older brother Ira Wilson Jr. worked for their father on the dairy farm. I beleive it was in Imlay City. Their father realized that they could make more money by trucking their own milk rather then selling it to others to truck and process the milk.
As time went on the Wilson brothers took the family business to a new level. They did home delivery, sold to grocery stores, restaurants, etc and opened up Wilson Dairy Stores with many chocolates, dairy products and ice cream. They also made sweets for other up scale chocolate companies.
After Ace Jr graduated college his uncle Ira told his brother, Ace Sr., that he did not want Ace Jr working in the dairy business. Ira did not have much confidence in Ace Jr.
Ace Sr. needed his son to do something so he bought a Pontiac dealership for him to run. Then Sr. built the new show room a few blocks south at 400 N. Main St. This is the one everyone has seen.
The old Ira Wilson Dairy office building on Hoover north of Nine Mile Rd was torn down within the last year.
But lets not get into Ace Jr.'s personal life. It is sad that Jr. died at an early age and leave it at that.....OK!