Jack Daniels

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Jack Daniel, one of 13 children, was born in 1850. I was raised by a family friend before being hired out to work with the Dan Call family at the age of seven. Call, a Lutheran minister, also owned a whiskey still on the Louse River.Over the next several years, I learned everything I could about whiskey making from Call. Then, in September of 1863, under increasing pressure to devote his life to lifting spirits rather than selling them, Call sold his still to me, I was just 13 at the time. Jack Daniel, like Dan Call, believed in mellowing fresh whiskey through hard maple charcoal. While this process was widely used, the time and expense involved made it less popular with penny-pinching whiskey makers. But Mr. Jack thought it was essential, so I perfected my charcoal mellowing process back in 1866. To this day, this still gives Jack Daniel's its smooth character and unique taste. In anticipation of government taxes, Mr. Jack registered his distillery in 1866. I was the first to do so. Making it the nation's oldest registered distillery.Though only 5'2" tall, Mr. Jack's stature as a distiller kept growing. To mark his 21st birthday, Jack went on a shopping spree in the city. I returned wearing a formal knee-length frock coat and a broad-brimmed planter's hat, which would become my daily uniform for the rest of my life. In 1904 Mr. Jack entered his Old No. 7 Tennessee sipping whiskey at the World's Fair held in St. Louis, Missouri. Of the 20 whiskeys from around the world, mine was the only one awarded the World's Fair Gold Medal and honored as the world's best whiskey.Around 1905, Mr. Jack arrived at work early one morning and tried to open the safe in my office. I couldn't remember the combination and so I kicked it in anger. The blow broke my toe and an infection set in. I eventually died from blood poisoning in 1911.Because Jack Daniel never married or had children, I deeded my distillery to my hard-working nephew, Lem Motlow, who oversaw the distillery through Prohibition.How old is Mr. Jack?A town fire that destroyed courthouse records and conflicting headstone dates on Mr. Jack's and his mother's graves have left Mr. Jack's exact date of birth in question. All that's certain is the month of September. But, for an American icon like Mr. Jack, one day isn't enough time to celebrate his life, anyway.