Spoelman and Haskell — Dead Distillers — Profiles headed “Joseph Washington Dant,” “Minor Case Beam,” and “Thomas Jefferson Pottinger” — Maryland Catholic migration, kinship, and Kentucky distilling

Spoelman, Colin, and David Haskell. Dead Distillers: A History of the Upstarts and Outlaws Who Made American Spirits. New York: Abrams Image, 2016.

Catholic migration, kinship, parish geography, and capital as infrastructure for a Kentucky distilling cluster.

Colin Spoelman and David Haskell, Dead Distillers: A History of the Upstarts and Outlaws Who Made American Spirits (New York: Abrams Image, 2016), Profiles headed “Joseph Washington Dant,” “Minor Case Beam,” and “Thomas Jefferson Pottinger” — Maryland Catholic migration, kinship, and Kentucky distilling.

Colin Spoelman and David Haskell, Dead Distillers: A History of the Upstarts and Outlaws Who Made American Spirits (New York: Abrams Image, 2016), Profiles headed “Joseph Washington Dant,” “Minor Case Beam,” and “Thomas Jefferson Pottinger” — Maryland Catholic migration, kinship, and Kentucky distilling.

Profiles headed “Joseph Washington Dant,” “Minor Case Beam,” and “Thomas Jefferson Pottinger” — Maryland Catholic migration, kinship, and Kentucky distilling

Spoelman and Haskell, Dead Distillers, Profiles headed “Joseph Washington Dant,” “Minor Case Beam,” and “Thomas Jefferson Pottinger” — Maryland Catholic migration, kinship, and Kentucky distilling.

Profiles headed “Joseph Washington Dant,” “Minor Case Beam,” and “Thomas Jefferson Pottinger” — Maryland Catholic migration, kinship, and Kentucky distilling

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. Network explanation is interpretation, not a quantified ranking of religion versus geology.