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"Shawhan Whisky - It is Liquor Like Our Great-Great Grandfathers Used to Drink" - - (excerpted from longer article) - - "90 Years Old and Drinks a Quart a Day” The party that went recently from Kansas City to the Holladay distillery met there a very interesting old negro, who is a living proof of the good qualities of the whisky made there, for he has drunk a quart a day regularly of this whisky for upwards of 50 years, and he looks good for 50 years more of it. His name is Aaron Busey. He doesn't know exactly how old he is, but says he is “about 90” (born ~1811). He was a slave long “befo’ de wah” (Civil War) and he helped to build the distillery in 1849. The old negro is night watchman now at the distillery. Uncle Aaron says: I drinks mo’ whisky than I does watah, but min’ you, sah, I doesn’t tech no likah unless it’s made outen dat spring watah, dah. I’se been raised on dis likah, an’ I done raise all my chilluns on it, an’ dey don’t know what a sick day is, no sah.”Date(s) of Creation
6/27/1901