Jack Daniel
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| Born |
Jasper Newton Daniel c. January 1849 Lynchburg, Tennessee, United States |
| Died | October 10, 1911 (aged 62) Lynchburg, Tennessee, United States |
| Occupation | Distiller, businessman |
| Years active | c. 1865 – 1911 |
| Known for | Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey |
| Website | Official website |
Jasper Newton "Jack" Daniel (c. January 1849 – October 10, 1911) was an American distiller and businessman, best known as the founder of the Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey distillery.
Daniel was the youngest of ten children born to Calaway and Lucinda Matilda (née Cook) Daniel. He was of Scots-Irish, Scottish, and Welsh descent; his grandfather, Joseph "Job" Daniel, was born in Wales, while his grandmother, Elizabeth Calaway, was born in Scotland. His paternal grandparents immigrated to the United States in the late 18th century.
According to one source, Daniel was born in January 1849, in or around Lynchburg, Tennessee. A town fire had destroyed the courthouse records, and because his mother died shortly after his birth, conflicting dates on Daniels' and his mother's headstones have left his date of birth in question. On June 26, 1851, his father remarried and had another three children with Matilda Vanzant.
Daniel was raised in the Primitive Baptist church. The company that now owns the distillery claims that Jack Daniel's was first licensed in 1866. However, in the 2004 biography Blood & Whiskey: The Life and Times of Jack Daniel author Peter Krass maintains that land and deed records show that the distillery was actually not founded until 1875.
According to company histories, sometime in the 1850s, when Daniel was a boy, he went to work for a preacher, grocer and distiller named Dan Call. The preacher, as the stories went, was a busy man, and when he saw promise in young Jack, he taught him how to run his whiskey still. However, on June 25, 2016, The New York Times reported the company's view that Daniel didn't learn distilling from Call, but from a man named Nearis Green – one of Call's slaves.
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