Receipt for payment. 28 March 1856.

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Receipt for payment. 28 March 1856.

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A manuscript document signed March 28, 1856, that is a receipt for payment of two bills issued to Meek & Milam, an important American reel makers.

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Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Meek, Benjamin.

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Milam, Benjamin Rush, 1788-1835

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Meek and Milam Company

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The Meek and Milam company was one of the earliest of the high quality Kentucky reel makers . From the Kentucky Encyclopedia on "Fishing Reels" : The Kentucky fishing reel was a bait casting reel manufactured in Kentucky during the nineteenth century, invented between 1805 and 1810 by George Snyder of Paris, Kentucky, a watchmaker and president of the Bourbon County Angling Club. The Kentucky fishing reel was the first multiplying reel. In such reels, every turn of the handle results in two to f...

Meek, Jonathan.

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