The OLD FARM
Trademark Finds a New Home
Written & Compiled by
K. R. Overholt Critchfield © 2019
~~ Published October 16, 2019 ~~
OLD FARM Pennsylvania Rye
Whiskey Label, by K. R. Overholt Critchfield
© 2019
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We are happy
to announce that the OLD FARM trademark
has been licensed to Hidden Still,
Inc. (Hidden Still Spirits), where
founder and President David E. Stein
has welcomed the historic Overholt
trademark to join a line of distinctive,
handcrafted small-batch distilled spirits
produced by an award-winning distillery.
They are located in the heart of Lebanon
County, Pennsylvania. Bottles of OLD FARM
will feature a rye whiskey from locally
grown and milled grain, distilled on
site, and aged a minimum of six months in
new oak barrels -- resulting in a taste
that should remind folks of the
mildly-aged rye whiskies of times gone
by. We hope this new chapter in the life
of the OLD FARM trademark will prove to
be successful for Hidden Still Spirits,
and for us.
Speaking
of times gone by, Hidden Still is
not far from Pottstown, where our 1712
immigrants to America, Marcus
Oberholtzer (c1664-1726) and his wife
Elizabeth Ely, settled on 300
acres at a sharp bend in the Schuylkill
River. They obtained a warrant for
the land in 1719, and there raised a
family of four sons and two daughters.
One of those sons was Martin
Oberholtzer (c1709-1744), father of Henrich
Oberholtzer (1739-1813), who was the
father of Abraham Overholt
(1784-1870).
We
will not forget that the OLD FARM
trademark became a USPTO reality with the
help of Herman C. Mihalich,
founder and distiller of Mountain
Laurel Spirits, LLC, in Bristol,
Pennsylvania (see below). Bristol is
located in the eastern sector of the
commonwealth, not very far from where Martin
Oberholtzer and wife Agnes Kolb
(1713-1786) farmed in Bucks County, where
Henrich and all twelve of Henrich's
children were born and raised.
Henrich
Oberholtzer was a farmer, a veteran of
the Revolutionary War, and a known
distiller. Years later, after Henrich and
his wife, Anna Beitler
(1745-1835), moved their whole extended
family to Westmoreland County, one of
their sons, Abraham Overholt, refined the
family's distilling process, and became a
master distiller of a fine Pennsylvania
"pure" rye whiskey.
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OLD FARM Pennsylvania Rye
Whiskey Label, by K. R. Overholt Critchfield
© 2016
Written & Compiled by K. R. Overholt
Critchfield © June 11, 2016
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Reg. No. 4,960,524
Registered May 17, 2016
Int. Cl.: 33TRADEMARK
PRINCIPAL
REGISTER
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KAREN R OVERHOLT CRITCHFIELD
(UNITED STATES INDIVIDUAL)
PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 15210FOR: DISTILLED SPIRITS OF RYE,
IN CLASS 33 (U.S. CLS. 47 AND 49).
FIRST USE 1-22-2016; IN
COMMERCE 1-22-16
THE MARK CONSISTS OF
STANDARD CHARACTERS WITHOUT CLAIM
TO ANY PARTICULAR FONT, STYLE, SIZE, OR
COLOR.
SN 85-776,250, FILED
11-9-2012
BARBARA A. GOLD,
EXAMINING ATTORNEY
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Karen's Note:
Many thanks go to the small circle of
family, friends and professionals who
have helped me reach the goal of owning a
trademark historically identified with
the rye whiskey made by my
great-great-great grandfather, Abraham
Overholt (1784-1870), produced at his
homestead in West Overton, PA, under the
names of: (a) A. Overholt Company,
(b) A. and H. S. Overholt Company,
(c) A. Overholt and Sons, and
(d) West Overton Distilling Company.
(a) 1810-1844; (b) 1844-1850 and
1856-1870; (c) 1850-1856; (d) 1906-1919
[From various sources]
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