By Jeannette Holland Austin
A Kentucky newspaper claims the invention and the drink known as a Tom and Jerry for Jack Shingler, an eccentric old shoemaker, originated it a third of a century ago and named it after Thomas Jefferson and the Biblical prophet, Jeremiah." Source:The Jones Headlight, published Gray's Station, Georgia, May 5, 1888.
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