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Jack was the youngest of 10 children born to his mother, Lucinda (Cook) Daniel, and father Calaway Daniel. After Lucinda's death, his father remarried and had three more children. [ 5 ] Calaway Daniel's father, Joseph "Job" Daniel, had emigrated from Wales to the United States with his Scottish wife, the former Elizabeth Calaway. [ 6 ]
Daniel's safe. Daniel never married and did not have children. However, he took his nephews under his wing, one of whom was Lemuel "Lem" Motlow. [1] [3] Motlow, a son of Jack's sister Finetta, [7] was skilled with numbers and was soon doing all of the distillery's bookkeeping.
Sometime in the 1850s, when Jack Daniel was a child, he went to work for Dan Call, a preacher, grocer, and distiller. [3] According to company lore, "the preacher was a busy man, and when he saw promise in young Jack, he taught him how to run his whiskey still."
Kentucky and Tennessee, where Jack Daniel's is crafted, overwhelmingly backed Trump in last year's election. “We are up against a triple threat of back-breaking tariffs, snowballing taxes and ...
The Supreme Court could rule in favor of Jack Daniel's in a trademark fight over "poop-themed" dog toys that resemble the company's famous whiskey bottles.
By 1947, Jack Daniel's was the only whiskey distillery in Tennessee, then a dry state. [3] [4] Motlow owned thousands of acres in Moore County and Coffee County, where he bred Tennessee Walking Horses. His horses competed in the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration in Shelbyville. [1]
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He and his wife moved back to the Lynchburg area following graduation from college and took a job in 1968 at the Jack Daniel's Distillery there. [3] He learned the various details of the production process and was named as the company's sixth master distiller in 1988, where he was responsible for supervising the "milling, yeasting, fermenting and distilling" involved in making the whiskey ...