Inventor of Coca-Cola
John Stith Pemberton John Stith Pemberton was born in
July 8, 1831 AD in Knoxville, Georgia, United States. He is known throughout the world as the inventor of Coca-Cola.
Pemberton met Anne Eliza Clifford Lewis of Columbus, Georgia, known to her friends as Cliff, who was a student at Wesleyan College in Macon. They married in Columbus in 1853. They had their only child, Charles née Pemberton, in 1854.
They lived in a Victorian-style house, the Pemberton House in Columbus, which has historical significance as it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 28, 1971.
In April 1865 Dr. Pemberton was wounded in the chest during the Battle of Columbus. He quickly became addicted to the morphine used to relieve his pain.
In 1866 he began searching for a cure for his addiction, and began experimenting with painkillers as free alternatives to morphine. His first recipe was for Dr. Tuggle's World Flower Compound Syrup, in which he made the active ingredient from a poisonous plant common in Alaska. He then began experimenting with coca and coca wine, eventually creating a recipe containing products from kola nuts and damiana, which he called Pemberton's French Wine Coca.
According to Coca-Cola historian Phil Mooney, Pemberton's world-famous soda "was originated in Columbus, Georgia and brought to Atlanta." Pemberton's drug was advertised due to public concern about drug addiction, depression, and alcoholism among war veterans and neurasthenia among highly stressed Southern women, and was said to be very beneficial.
Its creation had a lasting impact on the beverage industry and global popular culture. Pemberton, a professional pharmacist, sought to develop a medicinal drink to help relieve his pain. Before his death in the American Civil War in 1886, in his laboratory in Atlanta, Georgia, Pemberton created a syrup based on extract of coca leaves and kola nuts. Mixed with carbonated water initially, The drink was marketed as a medicinal tonic called "French Wine Coca." When Atlanta implemented an alcohol ban in 1886, Pemberton modified his formula to create a non-alcoholic drink. The result was Coca-Cola, a drink that quickly gained popularity due to its unique, refreshing taste and the name was created. The famous Coca-Cola logo was created by Pemberton's partner, Frank M. Robinson. Although Pemberton sold the rights to his formula to several partners due to financial and health problems, his invention laid the foundation for what would become one of the most famous and valuable brands in the world. The Coca-Cola Company remains a symbol of innovation. And commercial success to this day. John Stith Pemberton died on August 16, 1888 AD, but his legacy still lives on in every bottle of Coca-Cola enjoyed around the world.
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