How A Poor Tennessee Boy Created Jack Daniels
The Jack Daniel founder story is one of the most shocking origin tales in American history — a poor Tennessee orphan who fled his stepfather’s home as a child and somehow built the world’s most recognizable whiskey empire from nothing. The real history of how Jasper Newton Daniel went from sleeping in a preacher’s barn to winning a gold medal at the 1904 World’s Fair is packed with secrets the brand stayed quiet about for over 150 years, including a man named Nearest Green whose name was scrubbed from the record entirely. What did Nearest Green teach young Jack Daniel [See More…]
