Jack Daniels is one of the best selling brands of liquors in the world. It is very recognizable with its black label and square bottle. Now under the ownership of Brown Forman Corporation it is produced by a distillery in Lynchburg Tennessee and has been since 1956. The history of Jack Daniels Whiskey goes back to its beginning in 1866 although there is some conjecture that it began in 1875.
The distillery was originally developed by Jasper Newton Jack Daniels who was born in 1846. He was from a family of thirteen brothers and sisters who were of Scottish, Welsh, Irish and English ancestry. At the young age of sixteen although records are inconclusive he may have become one of the youngest distillers of that time.
It was said that as he never married and had no children he left his distillery when he died in 1911 to one of his nephews who was a favorite, Lem Motlow. He began working for Jack and since he was very good with figures Lem took over the distillery's bookkeeping.
Jacks death was attributed to blood poisoning caused by him kicking his safe, on a morning when he could not get it open due to forgetting the combination numbers. It is said that if he had put his infected toe in his own brand of whiskey it would have cleaned it.
In 1910 after a law was passed in Tennessee prohibiting whiskey distilling, it was moved to Birmingham, Alabama and St Louis, Missouri. Due to quality problems none of what was made was ever sold. Production in these areas was also stopped some years later due to more prohibition laws being passed. Motlow who had become a Tennessee state senator by this time, with some help was able to have the laws repealed and production began again in 1938. It was banned again in the Second World War, and production began again in 1947. The distillery was passed on to Lem Motlow's children after his death in 1947 and is still in business today.
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