Lem motlow biography of mahatma

American businessman (–)

Lem Motlow
Born	Lemuel Motlow ()November 28, Moore County, Tennessee, U.S.
Died	September 1, () (aged&#;77) Lynchburg, Tennessee, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Businessman, politician
Spouses	Clara Reagor Ophelia Evans
Children	4 sons, including J. Reagor Motlow, and 1 daughter
Relatives	Jack Daniel (uncle)

Lemuel Motlow (November 28, – September 1, ) was an American businessman, politician, landowner and Tennessee Walking Horse breeder. He was the owner of Jack Daniel's, and he served in the Tennessee House of Representatives and the Tennessee Senate.

Early life

Motlow was born on November 28, , in Moore County, Tennessee, near Lynchburg.^[1] His father was Felix Motlow and his mother, Nettie Josephine Daniel. He had four brothers. His maternal uncle, Jack Daniel, was the eponymous founder of the whiskey manufacturer.^[1]

Career

Motlow began his career by working for his uncle.^[1] He inherited Jack Daniel's in ^[2] Due to Prohibition, he was unable to sell whiskey from onward.^[2] As Lynchburg was a market town for mules at the time, Motlow sold harnesses instead.^[2]

Motlow sued the Moore County court to be able to reopen his distillery after the end of Prohibition in , but he was only able to do so in ^[1] To reduce the powers of the county court, Motlow decided to run for office.

Lem Motlow - Whiskey University

In the early s, when Tennessee was still a wilderness, Joseph Daniel and his family settled in Franklin County. Jack Daniel was very young when his mother died. His father remarried; with so many brothers and sisters, there was little attention left for Jack, so he left home to live with a neighbor, Felix Waggoner. At the age of seven, he went to work for Dan Call, a preacher who also made whiskey and sold it at his store. Jack Daniel worked very hard for Dan Call and proved himself an apt student.

He was elected as a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives in , and as a member of the Tennessee Senate in ^[3] By , Jack Daniel's was the only whiskey distillery in Tennessee, then a dry state.^[3][4]

Motlow owned thousands of acres in Moore County and Coffee County, where he bred Tennessee Walking Horses.

His horses competed in the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration in Shelbyville.^[1]

Murder Trial

In , Motlow was charged with murdering Clarence Pullis, a railroad porter. Motlow was a passenger on an L&N train when a confrontation arose between him and a black porter named Ed Wallis who asked Motlow to produce his ticket.

Motlow allegedly used a racial epithet triggering a fight. Pullis, who was white, attempted to separate the two men, and was shot and killed by Motlow who discharged a handgun, intending to shoot Wallis.

Lem motlow biography of mahatma gandhi When was the last time you sat down and focused your eyes on the fine print of a Jack Daniel's label? All of those little details--"Lynchburg Pop. The Wall Street Journal reports that "The Oldest Registered Distillery in the United States" is confronting some of the half-truths the company has been perpetuating with a "refinement" to the whiskey's label. Chief amongst them is that first detail above about Lynchburg, Tennessee's population. One resident jokes that when she moved to town and married a Jack Daniel barrel roller 30 years ago, their four children boosted the population from the advertised to

Motlow was tried in St. Louis, represented by a team of defense lawyers who turned the trial into a racially charged affair, blaming Wallis as the instigator. The all-white jury acquitted Motlow.^[5]

Personal life and death

Motlow was married twice. He married his first wife, Clara Reagor, in , and they had a son, J.

Reagor Motlow. She died in , and he married Ophelia Evans, with whom he had three more sons: Cliff Conner Motlow; Dan Evans Motlow; and Robert Motlow.

Biography of mahatma gandhi The eldest son of Felix Motlow and Nettie Daniel. Lem grew up on a farm just outside of Lynchburg. When he was about 14 years old, he started working at his Uncle Jack's distillery. He learned the business from the ground up, starting with the bookkeeping. Since Jack had never married or had children, upon his death in , he willed the distillery to his favorite nephews Lem Motlow and Dick Daniel.

They also had a daughter, Mary Avon Boyd.^[1]

Lem Motlow suffered a stroke in ^[3] He died of cerebral haemorrhage on September 1, , in Lynchburg, at age ^[1][3][4] He was buried in the Lynchburg cemetery.^[1]

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