C. T. Suddeth

The Legend of George “Crum” Speck (1824-1914) was a member of the St. Regis Mohawk tribe. He ran a restaurant in New York state and served homemade potato chips to his customers. Though he never claimed it, some call him the inventor of the potato chip. But numerous old cookbooks had recipes for potato shavings. He is on some lists as an African American inventor—he may be, but no one knows for sure. Weirdly enough, Frito-Lay used to have a potato chip plant in Louisville on Crums Lane—coincidence I assume.