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John Stith Pemberton (July 8, 1831 – August 16, 1888) was an American pharmacist and Confederate States Army veteran who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola. On May 8, 1886, he developed an early version of a beverage that would later become Coca-Cola, but sold the rights to the drink shortly before his death in 1888.
Pemberton in later life. Pemberton resigned as a general officer on May 9, 1864, and Davis offered him a commission as a lieutenant colonel of artillery three days later, [3] which he accepted, a testimonial of his loyalty to the Confederacy and the Confederate cause. [16] He commanded the artillery of the defenses of Richmond until January 9 ...
John Stith Pemberton, a pharmacist in Atlanta, invented Coca-Cola in 1886. [1] He sold the formula two years later to Asa Griggs Candler, [2] who shortly thereafter founded The Coca-Cola Company. In 2007, the company opened a new museum in downtown Atlanta called the World of Coca-Cola. [3]
John Pemberton is an associate professor of anthropology at Columbia University. He received a Ph.D. from Cornell University after doing undergraduate and Masters' work at Wesleyan University and being associated with the music program at California Institute for the Arts. He grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts, where his father taught at the ...
In 1888 Pemberton sold the formula to Asa G. Candler, another Atlanta pharmacist and businessman, for a total investment of $2,300 before Pemberton died. [2] Coca-Cola was granted a charter in 1892 and became the official Georgia Corporation named the Coca-Cola Company with Asa G. Candler, his brother John S. Candler, Frank M. Robinson and two ...
John Pemberton (1831–1888) was an American druggist and the inventor of Coca-Cola. John Pemberton may also refer to: John C. Pemberton (1814–1881), Confederate Civil War general; John Pemberton (footballer) (born 1964), English former footballer; Jack Pemberton (1883–1968), Australian rules footballer with Richmond
Pemberton is an English, Anglo Saxon surname first found in Pemberton, Greater Manchester, a residential area of Wigan, historically a part of Lancashire. It is common in the United Kingdom , and in places with an English diaspora such as Australia and the United States .
A Chain of Thunder is the second volume in a 4-book series by Jeff Shaara, the set in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.This volume covers Ulysses Grant's campaign against Confederate General John Pemberton, leading to the South's crushing loss of the citadel of Vicksburg.