Strong evidence that American whiskey’s geography and industrial ecology extended far beyond Kentucky and that by-products and logistics were constitutive parts of production.
PDF71–76 follows Wilson's Brooklyn plant and the Gaff/Fleischmann/Squibb networks across New York and the Ohio Valley; it is not a Samuel Mott profile.
The authors describe Charles Wilson's Brooklyn distillery as a substantial1851operation tied to grain consumption and dairy-cattle feeding, then follow Thomas Gaff and the Fleischmanns into Ohio Valley distilling, yeast manufacture, transport and finance. The Squibb profiles add industrial and medicinal distillation. This is a regional network, not a single Brooklyn biography.
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September29 fresh audit: sequential supplied text read1–249, all-page visual survey and selected enlarged details. This is a source-attributed paraphrase, not independent factual validation. Corrected Mott heading;1851figures are historical estimates, not modern capacity.
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