Jasper Newton Daniel..................

This American folk hero was born in 1850 in a small town in rural Lynchburg,Tennessee. He was one of 13 children born too the Daniel family. His family was of Welsh descent and they were farmers in Moore County, Tennessee. At a young age his father hired Jasper out to a Lutheran Minister named Rev. Dan Call who ran a dry goods store in Lynchburg. During those hard times many merchants had a number of sideline business to fall back on, they just couldn't made ends met on one business. Rev. Call also was a brew master and made a Tennessee whiskey at a small stream near Louis. Jasper worked with Rev. Call making his whiskey which he sold at his dry goods store. Jasper was a quick learner and very capable young man at whiskey making even at a young age. A Camp Meeting by a lady evangelist who gave a fire and brimstone message called for Rev. Call to either give up his Ministry or Whiskey. The good Rev. choose to give up the demon Whiskey and sold the business to his 13 year old employee who was becoming known as Jack. Yes, Jack Daniel!!
The war between the states was happening in 1861 but Jack's young age kept him out of the war. Jack's started out as a one man {boy} operation but he soon was able to hire some help. At age 16 he registered with the government as the youngest distillery owner in the United States. His method of whiskey making spread far and wide and his reputation was in the making. With his early profits he purchased a piece of property in Lynchburg that had a big limestone cave with an everlasting clear spring which Jack used to blend his whiskey.
In 1904 Jack rode a train to the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri and entered his Tennessee Whiskey into completion against 20 other whiskeys from all over the world. The little man all 5 foot 2 inches, his Tennessee Whiskey was awarded the World Fair Gold Metal. I bet this made Jack feel about 10 feet tall!! This little man from a little town in Tennessee took home the Metal for the best whiskey in the world. They must have partied for days in Lynchburg upon Jack's return. Now JACK DANIEL'S WHISKEY became world famous.
Jack took a liking to his nephew, Lem Motlow, and became Lem's mentor. Jack never married but was known to date several ladies in the area. One morning in 1906 Jack went to the distillery early to open his safe. He couldn't get the combination to work or forgot the correct numbers, after several tries he became upset with the safe and gave it a Big Hard Kick!! He injured his big toe with the kick. He never received treatment from a doctor and the infection would spread through out his body. Jack died as a result of kicking the safe with gangrene in 1911 and is buried in the Lynchburg Cemetery with two chairs on each side of his grave. It is said these chairs are for the ladies he dated while alive. Before his death he deeded the business over to his nephew, Lem Motlow who led the company into a growing business until Prohibition. During prohibition Motlow founded a mule trading business in Lynchburg which became the biggest mule trading center in the South. Motlow sold an entire warehouse full of whiskey to a business man just before Prohibition started and when the businessman came to pick up his buy all he found was the empty barrels. Noted gangster Al Capone mobsters had drained all the barrels at the bottom and made off with all the whiskey. Motlow made good on his deal with the businessman and the whiskey was a favorite for those people in the North during prohibition.
WOULD SOMEONE GET ME A PEPSI!!!!