by bourbonv » Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:10 pm
I am going through a ledger from the Taylor-Hay collections that is a Journal for James E Pepper. Taylor managed the distillery for Pepper in the late 1870's and eventually took control as Pepper's debts became more out of hand. In 1876 the person doing the distilling at Old Osacr Pepper was W F Mitchell and he earned a salary of $150.00 per month.
Mike Veach
"Our people live almost exclusively on whiskey" - E H Taylor, Jr. 25 April 1873