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The drivers tested — the Mishawaka element of 1911 is the machine

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The result is clean and worth printing whole: none of them was Mishawaka's. William Henry "Wild Bill" Turner was born in Toronto, Ontario, on 30 August 1877, raised in Toronto, and lived in Buffalo; he ended as a Maxwell sales officer in Wyoming and died in Denver on 11 May 1917. Arthur Greiner was born in Chicago on 28 April 1884; his first race in the championship record was the 1910 Illinois Trophy at Elgin, in a National, and he died in a Milwaukee sanitarium on 24 May 1917. Samuel Parker Dickson, the mechanic who died in Greiner's car, was born in Chicago on 21 May 1887 and is buried in Rosehill Cemetery there. Mishawaka's part in the big record of 1911 is the machine and the factory that built it, and this section prints the finding at that strength: tested, and the men were from somewhere else.

  • Turner — Toronto birth, Buffalo residence, Maxwell sales officer in Wyoming, Denver death 1917: driver biography records (Champ Car Stats; Racing-Reference)
  • Greiner — Chicago birth, Elgin 1910 in a National, Milwaukee death 1917: driver biography records
  • Dickson — Chicago birth 1887, Rosehill Cemetery burial: driver and cemetery records
  • The forward search for a Mishawaka driver in the 500 / AAA / USAC record: no result

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Source: The drivers tested — the Mishawaka element of 1911 is the machine, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/mishawaka/racing/drivers-tested-the-mishawaka-element-of-1911-is-the/