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Est. 1884.
EJ Reefer (my great uncle) and Max Charles Reefer (my great grandfather) founded the business. E J Reefer lived near 58th and Brookside Rd. in Kansas City, MO. Max Reefer and his wife lived at 37th and Pennsylvania, Kansas City, MO. My paternal grandparents, Jack and Arene, died in 1920 as a result of the final phase of the flu epidemic, leaving my father and his brother orphaned at ages 4 and 7 respectively. The family were non-drinkers and supported Prohibition! (submitted by an anonymous visitor to the site, 7-24-2009)
An ad from Munsey's magazine dated 1900 lists warehouses in St. Louis, Kansas City, Louisville and Chicago.
The company used the brand names:
"Gold Medal", "Green Mountain Rye", "Real Kentucky Royal", "Smoky Hollow Rye", and "Tastewell." | | Business name timeline:
Green Mountain Distillery (1900-1904), Green Mountain Distillery Co. (1905-1913), Reefer's Green Mountain Distillery Co. (1914-1915), Green Mountain Distillery Co. (1915), Green Mountain Distilling Co. (1916)
Address timeline:
1416 Grand Ave (1900), 1612-1618 Main (1901-1915), 1710A Main (1916) | | Business category timeline (abbreviations decoded below):
W, D (1901)
Years that company appeared in directories
Years directories were consulted
Kansas City directory notes
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Appearance in
directories:
1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916
Directories
consulted:
1870, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1887, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918
Kansas City directory
notes:
W = Wine & Liquor Dealers, Wholesale, D = distilleries (1881), V-R = Wine & Liquor Dealers, Retail (1889). Directories for 1870-1874, 1878, 1880-1885, 1895, and 1901 came in the form of type-written transcriptions rather than photocopies.
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