What was the first name of US distiller Jack Daniel, born September 1850?
Jack Daniel Jack Daniel Jasper Newton "Jack" Daniel ( September 1850 – October 9, 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. Daniel's date of birth is unknown. According to one source, he was born in
Jack Daniel 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 did not learn distilling from Call, but from a man named Nearest