Content
Associated booksBiography URL
Use one authority record per real person or organization. Source-specific roles and credit order belong in Source Contributions.
Identity
Canonical identity
Margie Mattingly Samuels, normalized as Samuels, Margie Mattingly.
Disambiguation
Maker’s Mark co-founder and spouse of Bill Samuels Sr. Distinguish her from later family executives and from the company as a legal and publishing entity.
Authority summary
Documented contributor to 1953 bread-based grain testing and creator of Maker’s Mark’s name and core package identity. The evidence supports distinct experimental and design roles, not sole authorship of the whiskey.
