Catherine Carpenter begins distilling whiskey for income after 1806

After 1806

Lincoln County, Kentucky

A named, independently recoverable early-republic episode that distinguishes a woman’s income-producing distilling from inherited-property shorthand or later legend.

The KHS finding aid is authoritative for the repository’s archival description. It does not specify the exact start date, duration, scale, output, equipment, or whether Catherine performed every production task personally.

Following Adam Carpenter’s death in 1806, Catherine Spears Frye Carpenter used whiskey distilling as one source of income.