John Nicholson Anhut
John Nicholson Anhut (January 8, 1884 – May 1977) was the founder of the Anhut Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan.
Biography
Anhut married Elizabeth Bouvier Walsh.
He was elected to the Michigan Senate in 1908. After the failure of the Anhut company, he eventually moved to New York, where he gained admittance to the bar.[1]
In 1912 he was accused of attempting to bribe physicians of
Harry K. Thaw while Thaw was institutionalized at the Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.[2] Anhut was found guilty of bribery, and was sentenced to not less than four years in the State Prison.[3]
In the 1930s Anhut was active in the hotel industry, buying the Imperial and Clifford hotels in downtown Detroit, as well as being the attorney for the Detroit Hotel Association.[4]
References
- ^ "Two To Four Years Anhut's Sentence" (PDF). New York Times. May 24, 1913. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
- New York Times. February 24, 1913. Retrieved 2009-12-31.
John N. Anhut, mentioned by Dr. John R. Russell in the Thaw bribery attempt case, spent yesterday afternoon with friends in the Union League and Lotos Clubs. He was interviewed last night in the Grand Central Station by a Times reporter. He denied emphatically that he was concerned in any attempt to procure the release of Harry K. Thaw from Matteawan.
- ^ "Two To Four Years Anhut's Sentence" (PDF). New York Times. May 24, 1913. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
- ^ Rudisill, Alvin. "Anhuts-Father and Son". Ypsilanti Gleanings. Retrieved 10 December 2012.