[2] On June 26, 1851, his father remarried and had another three children with Matilda Vanzant,[1] but would later pass away after catching pneumonia while serving in the Confederate States Army.

[4] 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 not founded until 1875.

[1] According to company histories, sometime in the 1850s, when Daniel was a boy, he went to work for a preacher, grocer, and distiller named Dan Call.

The preacher, as the stories went, was a busy man, and when he saw promise in young Jack, he taught him how to run his whiskey still.

[1] An oft-told tall tale is that the infection began in one of his toes, which Daniel injured one 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).