Today in Entrepreneurial History: May 18

By on May 18, 2012 in History


On this day in 1808 the American entrepreneur Elijah Craig died. He was a Baptist preacher who invented bourbon whiskey.

His name is now used as the brand name for a Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey marketed by Heaven Hill.


Business Opportunities Weblog editor and publisher Dane Carlson lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, just 15 miles from Yosemite National Park. He accidentally became a professional blogger in 2001. He has added 12,203 posts to the site.

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