Use to correct a systematic archival bias while preserving the different level of evidence available for each woman's technical role.
The chapter compares obituaries, business records, probate, census categories, court testimony, and later company narratives.
Hannush recovers Josephine Brown, Louisa Nelson, Augusta Dickel, and Nancy Patterson from records that often credited husbands or male namesakes. Their cases distinguish ownership, management, inheritance, wholesale interests, and technical distilling rather than treating every woman as merely a proprietor's widow.
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Women owners and managers in Tennessee whiskey
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