As a teenager Jack was taken in by Dan Call, a local preacher with a passion for distilling moonshine. His mother died when he was a baby and his father died in battle during the civil war.
Jack was the youngest of ten children, but was orphaned at an early age. In the days of mass production of moonshine and illicit whiskey, Jack obviously wanted to do things properly, his distillery was the first ever registered distillery in the United States. Jack was born in 1846, making him a very tender 20 year old when he started his business. Jack Daniel’s Tennessee whiskey is an American Whiskey, founded in 1866 by Jasper Newton ‘Jack’ Daniel in the small town of Lynchburg, Tennessee.
