Jack Daniel's
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| Subsidiary of Brown-Forman | |
| Industry | Manufacturing and distillation of liquors |
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Lynchburg, Tennessee (1875) |
| Founder | Jack Daniel |
| Headquarters | Lynchburg, Tennessee, US |
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| Products | Distilled and blended liquors |
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Production output
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11 million cases (2013) |
| $121,700,000 | |
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Number of employees
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368 |
| Parent | Brown-Forman Corporation |
| Website | www |
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Jack Daniel Distillery
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| Location | TN 55 Lynchburg, Tennessee |
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| NRHP Reference # | 72001248 |
| Added to NRHP | September 14, 1972 |
Jack Daniel's is a brand of Tennessee whiskey and the top selling American whiskey in the world. It is produced in Lynchburg, Tennessee, by the Jack Daniel Distillery, which has been owned by the Brown-Forman Corporation since 1956. Despite being the location of a major operational distillery, Jack Daniel's home county of Moore is a dry county, so the product is not available for purchase at stores or restaurants within the county.
The product meets the regulatory criteria for classification as a straight bourbon, though the company disavows this classification and markets it simply as Tennessee whiskey rather than as Tennessee bourbon. As defined in the North American Free Trade Agreement, Tennessee Whiskey is classified as a straight bourbon authorized to be produced in the state of Tennessee. Packaged in square bottles, a total of 11 million cases of the flagship "Black Label" product were sold in the company's fiscal year ended April 30, 2013.
The Jack Daniel's brand's official website suggests that its founder, Jasper Newton "Jack" Daniel, was born in 1850 (and his tombstone bears that date), but says his exact birth date is unknown. The company website says it is customary to celebrate his birthday in September. The Tennessee state library website said in 2013 that records list his birth date as September 5, 1846, and that the 1850 birth date seems impossible since his mother died in 1847. In the 2004 biography Blood & Whiskey: The Life and Times of Jack Daniel, author Peter Krass said his investigation showed that Daniel was born in January 1849 (based on Jack's sister's diary, census records and the date of death of Jack's mother).
Jack was one of 13 children fathered by Calaway Daniel and was the youngest of his mother's 10 children. After Daniel's mother, Lucinda Cook Daniel, died, his father remarried and had several more children. Jack Daniel's grandfather, Joseph "Job" Daniel, emigrated from Wales along with his Scottish wife, Elizabeth Calaway, to the United States. He was of Welsh, Scottish, English, and Scots-Irish descent. Daniel's father died in the Civil War, and he despised his step-mother, and as a result he ran away from home and was essentially orphaned at a young age.
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