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

 
  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.

 
 

 


OLD FARM Pennsylvania Rye Whiskey Label, by K. R. Overholt Critchfield © 2016
Written & Compiled by K. R. Overholt Critchfield © June 11, 2016

 

 
  Reg. No. 4,960,524
Registered May 17, 2016
Int. Cl.: 33

TRADEMARK

PRINCIPAL REGISTER

KAREN R OVERHOLT CRITCHFIELD (UNITED STATES INDIVIDUAL)
PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 15210

FOR: 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

 
 
 
 

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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