Tipp City's forgotten brewer
Tippecanoe detail view of 1858 Miami County map shows "I. Clark" brewery at bottom center. © 2019 Timothy R. Gaffney Note: Links to census records go to pages in FamilySearch.org. You will need to create a free account to access them. Call this Dayton Beer ’s first extra chapter. It’s about the brewing history of Tipp City in Miami County, Ohio—a history that eluded my research when I was writing my book—and a related whiskey scandal that went all the way to the U. S. Supreme Court. The lack of any clues to a brewery in Tipp City was puzzling and frustrating at the time. Granted, what was originally named Tippecanoe City had only about 1,000 residents in the 1860s and ‘70s. But my research was finding evidence of at least one small brewery in every city and village I studied, no matter how small— even tiny New Madison in Darke county, with about 500 residents in the 1870s and less than 1,000 today. I suspected Tipp City had had one as well, but I had to move