Westmoreland County PA Archives History .....Re: A. Overholt & Co. - A. O. Tintsman April 28, 1883 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Lynn Beatty klbeatty@redrivernet.com August 21, 2006, 2:02 pm Personally came before me the subscriber, A. O. Tintsman, who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that Abraham Overholt began the business of manufacturing whiskey at West Overton Westmoreland County, Pa., about the year 1810 and about two years afterwards he established the manufacture of whiskey at Broad Ford, Fayette County and continued there in said business uninterruptedly until his death in the year 1870. That about the year 1864 said Abraham Overholt took affiant his grandson into partnership with him in said business under the firm name of A. Overholt & Co. That on the death of said Abraham Overholt his administrators for a time continued said business with affiant under the same firm name of A. Overholt & Co. and then in the year 1875 affiant purchased the interest of the decedent in said firm and continued said business under the said firm name. That in 1876 affiant sold said business to C. S. O. Tintsman one of the said plaintiffs and affiants brother together with the right to use the said firm name of A. Overholt & Co. and in the same year C. S. O. Tintsman took Christopher Fritchman into partnership with him continuing the business under the same firm name. That affiant in purchasing the interest of Abraham Overholt deceased purchased also the right to use the firm name of A. Overholt & Co. That from 1863 down until affiant retired from said business the name A. Overholt & Co. was used as a brand and trade mark upon all whiskey manufactured by said firm and had become very extensively known throughout the United States and said trade mark was of great value, the whiskey so marked commanding a ready and profitable market and affiant believes that since 1876 the said trade mark has been used and continues to be of great value. That affiant was familiar with all the details of the process of manufacturing the said whiskey and fully informed his successor C. S. O. Tintsman as to such process and its details. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb