Evidence of repetition of Craig/Crow stories, not proof of the stories. Crow's asserted entire Pepper career and production firsts need independent historical support. Craig's entry begins sheet 87; the selected inventor and Crow assertions are on sheets 88–89, both displaying page 86.
Adjacent biographical entries present familiar bourbon-founder and scientific-pioneer stories as concise reference history.
The dictionary credits Elijah Craig with first distilling bourbon and initiating charred-barrel aging through an accident, and presents James C. Crow as Edinburgh-trained in medicine and science before assigning him additional production firsts.
Displayed p. 86 / PDF sheet 89
Displayed p. 86 / PDF sheet 88
Craig, Reverend Elijah; Crow, James C.
Fresh full-copy audit: 302 sheets read and visually surveyed; selected evidence rechecked in enlarged renders. Evidence of repetition of Craig/Crow stories, not proof of the stories. Crow's asserted entire Pepper career and production firsts need independent historical support. Craig's entry begins sheet 87; the selected inventor and Crow assertions are on sheets 88–89, both displaying page 86. Verification concerns source fidelity, not independent endorsement of every source assertion.
Evidence
The dictionary credits Elijah Craig with first distilling bourbon and initiating charred-barrel aging through an accident, and presents James C. Crow as Edinburgh-trained in medicine and science before assigning him additional production firsts.
Locator
Locator type: Page
Start: Displayed p. 85 / PDF sheet 88
End: Displayed p. 86 / PDF sheet 89
Source section: Craig, Reverend Elijah; Crow, James C.
Context
Adjacent biographical entries present familiar bourbon-founder and scientific-pioneer stories as concise reference history.
Annotation
Retained only as evidence of myth persistence in contemporary popular reference literature. Stronger corpus evidence finds no contemporary proof that Craig invented bourbon and does not substantiate Crow's Edinburgh medical-graduate legend.
Verification
Status: Verified
Verified against OCR text and rendered images of PDF sheets 88–89, displaying ebook pages 85–86.
Fresh full-copy audit — September 29, 2026
Authoritative locator: Displayed p. 86 / PDF sheet 88 through Displayed p. 86 / PDF sheet 89. This supersedes any older locator in the legacy citation text above.
Evidence of repetition of Craig/Crow stories, not proof of the stories. Crow's asserted entire Pepper career and production firsts need independent historical support. Craig's entry begins sheet 87; the selected inventor and Crow assertions are on sheets 88–89, both displaying page 86.
The whole supplied copy was read and visually surveyed; the locator was checked in enlarged source images. Source-fidelity verification does not independently validate every historical or scientific claim.