Person:Marshall Key (1)

Master Mason

• New Haven, Nelson County, KY, Lodge, No. 215

Master Mason in 1851

Distillery's of John Atherton & Marshall Key

• The Mayfield Distillery^S2

Suit by Cochran & Fulton, a partnership, against J. M. Atherton and others, to settle partnership accounts. Judgment for plaintiffs. Both parties appeal.^S1

This action was instituted in July, 1882, by the appellees, Cochran & Fulton, in the law and equity court, against John M. Atherton, for the settlement of a partnership. Atherton and his step-father Marshall Key were the joint owners of a distillery in Larue county, near New Haven, and engaged in making sweet-mash whiskey under the firm name of J. M. Atherton & Co. The appellee, Cochran & Fulton, were wholesale liquor dealers in the city of Louisville,and had been engaged in that business for a number of years. They purchased from Marshall Key his one-half interest in the distillery, and became partners with Atherton in the production and sale of whisky,—Cochran & Fulton owning one-half, and Atherton the other onehalf.^S1

• Atherton was also the sole owner at the same time of a distillery at the same place, called the "A. Mayfield Distillery Company," in which was produced sour-mash whiskey.^S1, ^S3

• The Atherton Distillery^S2

• J M Atherton & Co.^S2

• The Carter Distillery^S2

1.   The Kentucky Law Reporter: A Monthly Magazine, Devoted to the Interests of the Legal Profession at Large and Particularly of the Kentucky Bar. (Frankfort, Kentucky: Geo. A. Lewis, Book And Job Printer, 1890)
   Vol. 11, Page 186, July 1, 1889 To June 15, 1890.

   ATHERTON v. COCHRAN & FULTON.

2.   The pre-Prohibition Distillery Database
   2002.
3.   Patrick Hogue (Samples). The Samples / Semples Family.

   John McDougal Atherton was in business with his cousin Alexander Mayfield.

   
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} Lane, Janie Warren Hollingsworth. Key and allied families. (Statesboro, Ga.: J. W. Burke Co., 1931)
   Pages 90, 91.