Jack lived his life as a single man, with no wife or known children, and as age started to take its toll Jack gifted the distillery to his nephew Lem Motlow in 1907. Generations of Green descendants have continued to work at the Jack Daniel’s distillery, and at the last count three direct descendants still worked there. In recent years much of the history of how Jack learnt to distil has been accredited to Nearest Green. The three men continued to work together with the start of Jack Daniel’s whiskey, the early business was actually owned by Jack and Dan, with Nearest Green appointed the 1 st master distiller, but Dan soon left citing a conflict of views with his religious beliefs. It was during these years Jack learnt the distilling business from Dan and his master distiller Nathan ‘Nearest’ Green, who was an African-American enslaved man.
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.
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