Below is taken from the above book. "Though he was vexed by the arrogant Kentucky bourbon boys and the "Octopus" to the north, it was the appearance of a worthy rival not far from Tullahoma, in adjacent COFFEE CO., that threatened JACK DANIEL'S status as the region's preeminent distiller. This rival was EMMANUEL 'MANNY' SCHWAB, a German Jew with big aspirations. When one took into consideration SCHWAB'S family background, he was clearly a man to be reckoned with and a man of questionable ethics who might not play fair. During the Civil War, his father, ABRAM SCHWAB, a merchant based in Knoxville and Nashville, had pocketed a tidy profit smuggling goods through Union lines. Once Union troops occupied Tennessee in 1862, he and a partner. MEIER SALZKOTTER, contracted a Nashville carpenter to build a light spring wagon with a false bottom, providing about three inches between the two floors. SCHWAB smuggled everything from much-needed medicine to gray caps for the Confederate soldiers, making $20,000 in blood money off the latter. SALZKOTTER, who smuggled quinine and other medicines from Louisville to Nashville, was eventually caught and imprisoned. His wife, who happen to be ABRAM SCHWAB'S daughter Cecelia, turned to prostitution while he was in jail-that and the fervent pursuit of blood money were telling commentaries on the SCHWAB family's morals. After the war, Abram's on Emmanuel went to work as a bookkeeper for the GEORGE A DICKEL company. Dickel, an immigrant from Frankfut-am-Main, Germany, and a former cobbler, had founded a liquor wholesale company in Nashville. Lake many distributors, he bought whiskey from a variety of distilleries and blended it at his discretion for resale. But then he discovered the modest Cascade Distillery in Normandy, Coffee County, which was making exceptional whiskey, and started selling the Cascade brand, rather than blending it Meanwhile, EMMANUEL SCHWAB married Dickel's sister-in-law and slowly took on more responsibility at the firm. To better assimilate and promote himself in Baptist country, he dropped the "c" from his name and added Victor as a first name, an indication of the ambition he harbored. As one of the company's secretaries observed, "Mr. Victor was the shrewdest, smartest fellow around this part of the country." It goes on to say there was another partner at Cascade and his name was McLin Davis. These partners opened saloons in Nashville. One being the Climax and it was "the most famous, or infamous, sporting house in the city". There were many Germans that settled in middle TN. Also when Captain James Ogethrope arrived in Savannah, GA 1733. He laided out the city. As I recall when he came or on one of his trip or some time there after there were several Jewish families that settled in Savannah. I am sure that many could have migrated west as did other pioneer families. Julia Julia