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 continued by the Reverend R.B. Earée after Pemberton's death. In 1872, when John Walter Scott held the first stamp auction in Europe, Pemberton provided one of the first expert reports on the genuineness of two 20 cent St. Louis Postmaster Provisional stamps which were considered by many to be forgeries. Pemberton was an active contributor to many philatelic journals, including "The Stamp-Collector's Magazine" and "The Philatelist". He was editor of "The Stamp-Collector's Review and Monthly Advertiser" from January 1864. In 1872 he started "The Philatelical Journal", dedicated to advanced philately, which was the house organ of his stamp dealing firm