Edwin & brother, Joseph, began their Chevrolet car dealership business, Clarkston Motor Sales, 32 S. Main, on the site of Frank Yeager/Yager's blacksmith shop, on the southeast corner of S. Main & E. Church streets in 1920. In 1928 they moved the business to the building at 3 E. Washington. They expanded the business to include Oldsmobile sales after moving to a new building on Dixie Highway in 1949.