Some interesting ‘Did you knows?’
By Vickie Rhodehamel - Arcanum News for the week of February 8, 2021
Did you know that Daniel Mikesell, founder of Mikesells Potato Chips, was born in Pleasant Hill, Ohio? It is believed that he was born in the house directly north of the Pleasant Hill Cemetery, which is currently the home of Jean Gilbert.
Did you know that Arcanum’s Harry Stutz, who founded the Stutz Manufacturing Company in Dayton, entered a car in the first Indy 500 in 1911, and driver Gil Anderson finished a very respectable 11th, for an American car? The Stutz car also served as the Indianapolis 500 pace car in 1912. Stutz built the car in five weeks, which he named Bearcat. Stutz was born in 1876 on a farm to Henry K. Stutz and Elizabeth Schneider. He was an automobile manufacture, entrepreneur, self-taught engineer, and innovator of the automobile industry. Arcanum can be proud of what Harry Stutz accomplished.