Philip Andrew Dauch was born in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.  He emigrated to America in July of 1841. In about 1850 Dauch established a brewery that reportedly made the first lager beer in the state of Ohio. The brewery on Sandusky Bay eventually became the Stang Brewing Company.

In 1865, because of business reversals, he gave up the brewery and moved to a farm near Venice. Five years later he moved to another farm and established a home on Bogart Road. He loved to read and was a progressive man. Philip Dauch died on the 9th of May, 1906.

John E. Stang was born in Monroeville, Ohio.  He was the younger brother of brewery founder Frank Stang and became president of the firm with Frank retired in 1890.