Along with his son Jere and his brother Park, Jim Beam purchases the Old Murphy Barber Distillery in Clermont, KY. At this location they would build a new plant and register it as the Jim Beam Company, Inc.
Bill Samuels, Sr. re-entered the distilling business after leaving T.W. Samuels Distillery Co. in 1943. He purchased the former Burks Spring plant on Star Hill Farm and named it, Maker’s Mark Distillery. It is believed he changed his name from Taylor William...
After Prohibition ended, the T.W. Samuels & Son Distillery company was reorganized as the T.W. Samuels Distillery Co. with Robert Block serving as president, Leslie B. Samuels as plant manager, and his son, Bill Samuels, Sr., as vice president. Just three years...
The Star Distillery Co. of Cincinnati purchased control of the T.W. Samuels & Son Distillery, buying out the Samuels’s family interest, except for Leslie’s. He would remain on as manager of the plant until it closed in 1920 due to Prohibition.
The Cedar Brook Distillery is established by William Henry McBrayer. The land was purchased from Uncle Dave, a former slave to the Ryan family who inherited the land from them since they had no heirs. According to company literature dated in 1916, the distillery...
