The Queen of the Bahamas

Cleo Lithgow was born in Bowling Green, Ohio. She moved to New York and became a stenographer for British Scotch Whisky Wholesaler Hagg and McTavish. When prohibition hit she convinced her employer why don't we import alcohol from the Bahamas? Like let's just do it there. So this time she moves down to Nassau to help them. She opens a wholesale liquor store in the Lucerne Hotel. And that's where she also lived. In 1920, the year after prohibition hit, the shipments totaled 386,000 gallons of whisky.