Just two years after opening his first distillery, Col. E. H. Taylor purchases the Leestown Distillery which he renames to O.F.C. Distillery in 1870. O.F.C. stood for “old fire and copper.”
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”...
