Colonel E. H. Taylor

Colonel Edmund Haynes Taylor, Jr. was born in Columbia, Kentucky in 1832 and was a descendant of two U.S. presidents: James Madison and General Zachary Taylor. As Mayor of Frankfort, KY, he used his influence to help pass the “Bottled-In-Bond Act of 1897” along with help from the Secretary of Treasury, John Carlisle, and a friend in the whiskey business, Ezra Brooks.