13 Facts About John Pemberton

John Stith Pemberton was an American pharmacist and Confederate States Army veteran who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola.

John Pemberton suffered from a sabre wound sustained in April 1865, during the Battle of Columbus.

John Pemberton began to experiment with various painkillers and toxins.

John Pemberton entered the Reform Medical College of Georgia in Macon, Georgia, and in 1850, at the age of nineteen, he earned his medical degree.

John Pemberton met Ann Eliza Clifford Lewis of Columbus, Georgia, known to her friends as "Cliff", who had been a student at Wesleyan College in Macon.

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John Pemberton soon became addicted to the morphine used to ease his pain.

John Pemberton next began experimenting with coca and coca wines, eventually creating a recipe that contained extracts of kola nut and damiana, which he called Pemberton's French Wine Coca.

In 1886, when Atlanta and Fulton County enacted temperance legislation, John Pemberton had to produce a non-alcoholic alternative to his French Wine Coca.

John Pemberton blended the base syrup with carbonated water by accident when trying to make another glassful of the beverage.

John Pemberton decided then to sell this as a fountain drink rather than a medicine.

John Pemberton had a hunch that his formula "someday will be a national drink", so he attempted to retain a share of the ownership to leave to his son.

However, John Pemberton's son wanted the money, so in 1888, John Pemberton and his son sold the remaining portion of the patent to a fellow Atlanta pharmacist, Asa Griggs Candler, for, which in 2020 purchasing power is equal to.

John Pemberton's body was returned to Columbus, Georgia, where he was buried at Linwood Cemetery.