“J.B. Kirk : Farmer, Merchant, Distiller” by R.L. Murray, 2025
“J.B. Kirk Bourbon Whiskey returns to its roots in Woodbury,” The Cannon Courier, August 5, 2025, Pages 1 and 2.
“Distillers Suffering,” Daily American: The Nashville Tennessean, June 13, 1889, Page 7.
“One Barrel Found Buried Near John B. Kirk’s Residence,” Nashville Banner, December 1, 1892. Page 1.
“Barrel Captured,” The Tennessean, December 2, 1892, Page 3.
“Little Business of Importance Done This Morning” Nashville Banner (Nashville, Tennessee) April 28, 1893, pg 1.
“Federal Court,” The Tennessean, April 29, 1893, Page 4.
“Organized in Cannon County,” The Tennessean, October 10, 1896, Page 2.
“Probable Fatal Cutting Affray in Rutherford County,” The Tennessean (Nashville, Tennessee) September 10, 1898, pg 5.
“Enterprising Young Farmer of Cannon” Southern Standard (McMinnville, Tennessee) August 25, 1883. Page 8.
“Let Mr. Kirk Alone,” The Tennessean, June 5, 1887, Page 16.
“Protest Against the Idea of Violence to Albert Jetton,” The Nashville American (Nashville, Tennessee) June 25, 1898, pg 4.
“Hunting For Him,” The Cannon Courier (Cannon County), June 19, 1898.
“Albert Jetton, The Cannon County Murderer, Carried Back to Woodbury,” The Tennessean, September 10, 1898, Page 5.
“Controversy Over the Incorporation of City of Woodbury,” Chattanooga Press, March 3, 1899, Page 5.
“Kirk bitted by two mad dogs,” Nashville Banner, June 4, 1887, Page 4.
“How Local Option Was Won At Woodbury, TENN,” The Chattanooga News (Chattanooga, Tennessee), March 13, 1902, pg 1.
“Stores Swept Away,” The Nashville American, April 1, 1902, pg 2.
“Governor Pardons Four Moonshiners” Nashville Banner (Nashville, Tennessee) November 12, 1906, pg 2.
“Whiskey Men Are Conditionally Pardoned,” The Journal and Tribune (Knoxville, Tennessee), November 13, 1906, Page 1.
“Out Of Ordinary,” The Nashville American, November 11, 1906, Page 21.
“Mail Carried by an Automobile Line,” Nashville Banner, February 23, 1909, Page 2.
“A Few Plain Facts About General Faulkner’s Official Conduct” Nashville Tennessean (Nashville, Tennessee) December 10, 1909, pg 2.
“Whole Block of Buildings Burned,” Nashville Banner, March 9, 1910, Page 4.
“This House, Erected In 1853, Was a Young Ladies School, Hospital, Home,” The Daily News Journal (Murfreesboro, Tennessee), October 15, 1941. Page 5.
J.B. Kirk Whiskies Ad, The Woodbury Press, March 23, 1900, Page 2.
J.B. Kirk Whiskies Ad, The Woodbury Press, September 28, 1900, Page 4.
J.B. Kirk Whiskies Ad, The Woodbury Press, February 15, 1901, Page 4.
J.B. Kirk Whiskies Ad, The Woodbury Press, February 20, 1902, Page 4.
Kirk and Sullivan Ad, The Woodbury Press, February 20, 1902, Page 4.
Kirk and Sullivan Ad, The Woodbury Press, April 3, 1902, Page 4.
Kirk and Sullivan Ad, The Woodbury Press, May 1, 1902, Page 4.
“Pardons Granted by Governor Patterson,” Knoxville Sentinel, June 13, 1907, Page 2.
“Automobile Lines At Woodbury,” The Tennessean, April 3, 1909, Page 2.
“One of the Worst Fires Woodbury Has Ever Known,” The Nashville American, March 9, 1910, Page 1.
“Woodbury Suffers A Fire Loss of $20,000,” Nashville Banner, January 24, 1914, Page 4.
“Sixteen Horses Lost in a Fire,” Nashville Banner, November 3, 1921, Page 3.
“This House, Erected in 1853, Was a Young Ladies School, Hospital, Home,” The Daily News Journal, October 15, 1941, Page 5.
“Murder, Moonshine, and General Mayhem in Shotgun County,” by R.L. Murray, 2018
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