1934 Irvin S Cobb's own Recipe Book

A M E R I CA'S

LARGEST INDEPENDENT

DISTILLING ORGANIZATION

I N th,e Spring of 1865, a lieutenant of a Virginia Regiment of the Confederate Army turned homeward from the Civil War battlefields to find his house in ruins and his family destitute. His family's wealth which before the war had been considerable had been invested in Confederate bonds and was gone. In Georgia this Virginia soldier, together with his father, one Paul Jones, then 66 years old, began making whiskey. Prior to the Civil War the Jones family had lived in Lynchburg, Virginia. At the time when Sherman began his march "from Atlanta to the Sea" General Lee ordered the young lieutenant and his brother, a colonel, to Georgia in an attempt to ~heck Sherman's advance. The elder Paul Jones moved from Lynchburg to Atlant;_ to be near his family. In a battle not far from Atlanta, the colonel "'.~s killed. It is his son, then a boy of five, who is the head of Frankfort Distilleries today. To the first brand of whiskey produced was given the name of the founder of this company, Paul Jones - and the name, too, of his son who had died in the war. Through the years the popularity of this whiskey spread - first through the South, then throughout the country. Late in the 19th century the Paul Jones Square Dance was named 35