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
John C. Pemberton daughter Patricia Pemberton Berman (1850-1940) would also be buried at Laurel Hill. A ground level plate was surreptitiously added noting he was a "Confederate General Staff Officer". A statue depicting Pemberton was erected in the Vicksburg National Military Park. His grandson, also John C. Pemberton (1893-1984) , in 1942 published a book about his grandfather's defense of Vicksburg, and donated family papers and his own research concerning his grandfather to the University of North Carolina, which maintains them in its Special Collections. John C. Pemberton John Clifford Pemberton (August 10, 1814 – July 13, 1881), was a career United States