John Pemberton John Pemberton John Stith Pemberton ( – ) was an American pharmacist whom is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola. In May 1886, he developed an early version of a beverage that would later become world-famous as Coca-Cola, but sold his rights to the drink shortly before his death. Pemberton was born on , in Knoxville, Georgia, and spent most of his childhood in Rome, Georgia. His parents were James C. Pemberton and Martha L. Gant. He entered the Reform Medical College of Georgia in Macon, Georgia, and in 1850, at the age of nineteen, he earned his medical
Edward Loines Pemberton "James R. Grant and Co". "The Philatelic Record", edited by Maitland Burnett, was founded in 1879 in Pemberton's memory. Pemberton's first advertisement as a stamp dealer appeared in the "Boys Own Magazine" in October 1862. In 1869, Adelaide Fenton recorded that William Dudley Atlee was Pemberton's clerk. In 1871 Pemberton formed the stamp company "James R. Grant and Co." After his death his business was taken over by A.H. Wilson, and continued under the name of "Pemberton, Wilson & Co." It was eventually acquired by Theodor Buhl. Edward Loines Pemberton Edward Loines Pemberton (10 December 1844 – 12 December 1878)