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Beam, James Beauregard(Colonel Jim Beam)
Born: 1864 AD
Died: 1947 AD, at 83 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Businessmen, Manufacturers
Died: 1947 AD, at 83 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Businessmen, Manufacturers
1864 - Jim Beam Colonel James Beauregard Beam was born. American businessman and bourbon distiller.
1882 - James B. Beam began working at his father's distillery, learning the family bourbon making secrets as the fourth generation of Beams to carry on the family tradition.
- The Beam & Hart Distillery was famous for a brand the called Old Tub whiskey.
1895 - James Beauregard Beam was only 30 years old when he took over the family distillery, a year before its one-hundredth anniversary.
1933 - Jim Beam reopened the plant after prohibition with new partners.
- With the repeal of prohibition, the James Beam Distilling Co. of Clermont, Kentucky, was incorporated on August 14th.
1882 - James B. Beam began working at his father's distillery, learning the family bourbon making secrets as the fourth generation of Beams to carry on the family tradition.
- The Beam & Hart Distillery was famous for a brand the called Old Tub whiskey.
1895 - James Beauregard Beam was only 30 years old when he took over the family distillery, a year before its one-hundredth anniversary.
1933 - Jim Beam reopened the plant after prohibition with new partners.
- With the repeal of prohibition, the James Beam Distilling Co. of Clermont, Kentucky, was incorporated on August 14th.
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