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Jasper Newton "Jack" Daniel ( September 5, 1850 – October 10, 1911) was an American distiller and the founder of the Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey distillery. ==Biography== Jack was the youngest of ten children born to Calaway and Lucinda (née Cook) Daniel.〔 Jack Daniel's paternal grandparents immigrated to America in the late 18th century. His grandfather Joseph "Job" Daniel was born in Wales, while his grandmother, Elizabeth Calaway, was born in Scotland. He was of Welsh, Scots-Irish and Scottish descent.〔Krass, P., (''Blood and Whiskey: The Life and Times of Jack Daniel'' ), Wiley, April 29, 2004 (page 7 saying "after he was born in 1850", and page 19 saying "By the time Jack was born in September 1850").〕 According to one source, he was born in September 1850, in or around Lynchburg, Tennessee.〔 A town fire had destroyed the courthouse records, and conflicting dates on his and his mother's headstones have left his date of birth in question.〔(Jack Daniel's official website ), Brown-Forman Corporation.〕 His mother died shortly after his birth, most likely due to complications from the childbirth.〔 On June 26, 1851, his father remarried and then had another three children with his stepmother Matilda Vanzant.〔 Jack was raised in the Primitive Baptist church.〔http://www.c-span.org/video/?182362-1/book-discussion-blood-whiskey-jack-daniel〕 The company that now owns the distillery claims that it was first licensed in 1866.〔 However, in the 2004 biography ''Blood & Whiskey: The Life and Times of Jack Daniel'' author Peter Krass maintains that land and deed records show that the distillery was actually not founded until 1875.〔 Jack Daniel never married and did not have any children. However, he took his nephews under his wing – one of whom was Lemuel "Lem" Motlow (1869–1947).〔>(Book Discussion: ''Blood & Whiskey: The Life and Times of Jack Daniel'' ), C-SPAN.〕〔 Lem, a son of Jack's sister, Finetta,〔Jeanne Ridgway Bigger, "Jack Daniel's Distillery and Lynchburg: A Visit to Moore County, Tennessee," ''Tennessee Historical Quarterly'', Vol. 31, No. 1 (Spring 1972), pp. 3-21.〕 was skilled with numbers, and was soon doing all of the distillery's bookkeeping. In 1907, due to failing health, Jack Daniel gave the distillery to two of his nephews.〔〔 Motlow soon bought out the other nephew and went on to operate the distillery for about forty years (interrupted between 1942 and 1946 when the U.S. government banned the manufacture of whiskey due to World War II).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jack Daniel Distillery )〕 He died in 1947.〔(Lem Motlow ), Jack Daniel's website. Retrieved: 20 March 2014.〕 Daniel died from blood poisoning at Lynchburg in 1911. An oft-told tall tale is that the infection began in one of his toes, which Daniel injured one early morning at work by kicking his safe in anger when he could not get it open (he was said to always have had trouble remembering the combination).〔Freeth, N. (2005). ''Made in America: from Levis to Barbie to Google''. St. Paul, MN: MBI.〕 However, Daniel's modern biographer has asserted that the story is not true.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jack Daniel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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