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  John Pemberton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John married Wesleyan College student Ann Eliza Clifford Lewis and moved to Columbus, Georgia in 1853.
Pemberton served on the first pharmacy licensing board in the state, established a modern chemical laboratory that was the first state-run facility to test soil and crop chemicals, and was a trustee of Emory University School of Medicine.
John was plagued by his morphine addiction and imbibed his cocawine and soda in an effort to control the addiction (both beverages contained coca leaf, which in turn contains cocaine—believed at the time to be helpful in combating dependence on opiates).
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 Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - John Pemberton
The Pembertons married July 20, 1828, in Crawford County, and John was born July 8, 1831.
John worked a druggist in Columbus, Georgia, and built a laboratory where he made and sold medicines, photographic chemicals, and cosmetic products including a popular perfume he called Sweet Southern Bouquet.
John was plagued by his morphine addiction and imbibed his Wine Cola and soda in an effort to control the addiction (both beverages contained coca leaf, which in turn contains cocaine - believed at the time to be helpful in combatting dependence on opiates).
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 John Pemberton -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
John Stith Pemberton (July 8, 1831 - August 16, 1888) was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (A health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs) druggist who invented (additional info and facts about Coca-Cola) Coca-Cola.
Pemberton served on the first pharmacy licensing board in the state, established a modern chemical laboratory that was the first state-run facility to test soil and crop chemicals, and was a trustee of (additional info and facts about Emory University School of Medicine) Emory University School of Medicine.
John began work on a (Dried leaves of the coca plant (and related plants that also contain cocaine); chewed by Andean people for their simulating effect) coca and cola (kola) nut-based nerve tonic called (additional info and facts about Pemberton's French Wine Coca) Pemberton's French Wine Coca.
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 Developing Critical Reading Skills | Chapter 2 - Exercise 4
John Styth Pemberton, the man who invented Coca-Cola, was well respected in the Atlanta community.
Pemberton was known as Doctor because he liked to dispense free medical advice to his customers.
Pemberton measured all his ingredients carefully and prepared the syrup according to a precise formula.
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John Styth Pemberton, a pharmacist, produced what was to become the Coca-Cola syrup, in a three legged brass pot.
John Pemberton's partner and bookkeeper, Frank M. Robinson, suggested the name Coca-Cola, and designed the famous flowing script distinguishing the famous trademark.
John Pemberton walked the first gallon of Coca-Cola syrup to Jacob's Pharmacy on May 8, 1886.
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 Coca-Cola History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
John Styth Pemberton first introduced the refreshing taste of Coca-Cola in Atlanta, Georgia.
It was May of 1886 when the pharmacist concocted a caramel colored syrup in a three-legged brass kettle in his backyard.
Sadly Dr. Pemberton was never able to see what a legend he created as he died in 1888.
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 John Stith (Styth) Pemberton
John Stith Pemberton born, Knoxville, GA. His middle name is sometimes misspelled as Styth.
Born in Knoxville then the county seat of rural Crawford County, Georgia, Pemberton's family moved to Rome, Georgia as a young child.
To ensure the ingrediants he used were as labeled, he became one of the first importers to test the quality of his purchases.
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 SlowFood.it
Although the World Company of Atlanta did their best to remove all suspicion of plagiarism from Pemberton, who was from Georgia, the discrepancies in the information available were enough to induce me to try and get to the bottom of it.
At the end of the 19th century, the pharmaceutical industry was bubbling with excitement at the rediscovery of the – real or imagined – healing properties of the seeds, leaves and bark of aromatic plants.
Pemberton’s own state of health forced him to hand over the formula for his syrup to Asa Candler who, neglecting all the medicinal aspects, made it into an invigorating drink under the slogan, ‘Delicious and Refreshing’ (1889).
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 1886
May 1 - the start of the general strike in the United States which escalated into Haymarket Riot and eventually won the eight-hour workday in the U.S. May 4 - Emil Berliner started working on inventing the gramophone.
May 8 - Pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage that would be named "Coca-Cola."
May 29 - Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise Coca-Cola (ad in the Atlanta Journal).
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 Calendar Archives - Coca Cola   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Atlanta pharmacists John Styth Pemberton's patent medicines were powerless against his financial ills.
Then one afternoon in 1886, Pemberton blended French Wine Coca with sugar in an iron pot in his backyard.
Pemberton dubbed it the most effective cure-all on the market, certain to remedy everything from fallen arches to indigestion.
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 Coca Cola Recipes and MORE!
A man by the name of John Styth Pemberton thought he was creating a headache remedy.
Shortly after John Pemberton created this syrup; he took a jug of it to Willis Venable, the manager of the largest soda fountain in Atlanta.
Pemberton died in 1888 and could not live to see the success of his soft drink, but he knew something of the value of the drink he created two years earlier.
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 Coca Cola: Past, Present & Future free essays
Pemberton had an addiction to morphine; this is where his cause began.
He constructed a drink from the cocaine in the coca leaf and the caffeine from the cola nut; the cocaine was supposed to help him get off of morphine and the caffeine gave the beverage a buzz, therefore stimulating pleasure.
Pemberton eventually partnered with a man by the name of Jacobs, Pemberton then sold the business to Asa Candler in 1888 for $2300.00.
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 ipedia.com: John Pemberton Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
John Stith Pemberton was an American druggist who invented Coca-Cola.
He was the son of James Clifford Pemberton and Martha L. Worsham Gent.
The Pembertons married July 20, 1828, in Crawford Count...
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 Coca leaves
Pemberton had previously been marketing patent medicines such as Triplex Liver Pills and Globe of Flower Cough Syrup.
That year, Pemberton is said to have sold twenty-five gallons of the syrup.
By 1906, when the law was passed, Pemberton's successors as makers of Coca-Cola had switched from ordinary coca leaves to decocainized coca leaves, but caffeine was still included in the formula.
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 History
The world has changed in many ways since pharmacist, John Styth Pemberton first introduced the refreshing taste of Coca-Cola in Atlanta, Georgia.
Pemberton concocted a caramel-colored syrup in a three-legged brass kettle in his backyard.
That first year, Dr. Pemberton sold 25 gallons of syrup, shipped in bright red wooden kegs.
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 Peru, Coca Trade, and Environment
Pemberton, drawing on the success of Angelo Mariani's Coca wine, developed a new product that he registered as French Wine Coca--Ideal Nerve and Tonic Stimulant (Inciardi 6).
Pemberton's French Wine Coca was originally developed as a medicine, but in 1886 he added another ingredient thus turning it into a soft-drink.
Since Pemberton's version of Coca-Cola, the stimulant effects of Coca-Cola are mild and does not represent a national health concern.
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 Food Facts & Trivia: Coca Cola
The first Coca-Cola was sold on May 8, 1886 at a soda fountain in Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta, either by Pemberton himself, or by clerk Willis Venable.
John Styth Pemberton, the Atlanta pharmacist who created Coca-Cola, sold a 2/3 interest in his company in 1887 for $283.29.
Vin Mariani was widely imitated, and Pemberton at first produced an imitation of Vin Mariani before formulating his own concoction, Coca-Cola.
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 May 8 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1886 - Pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage that would later be named "Coca-Cola".
1473 - John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (b.
1873 - John Stuart Mill, English philosopher (b.
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 cocacola   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In 1885, John Styth Pemberton of Atlanta, Georgia, who had manufactured previously such patent medicines as Triplex Liver Pills and Globe of Flower Cough Syrup, introduced "French Wine Coca--Ideal Nerve and Tonic Stumulant." The product relied heavily on extract of coca leaves.
That year, Pemberton is said to have sold 25 gallons of the syrup.
At various times it was advertised as "a remarkable therapeutic agent" and as a "sovereign remedy" for a long list of ailments, including melancholy and (curiously) insomnia (Brecher, 1972).
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 St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Coca-Cola
In May 1886, Georgia pharmacist John Styth Pemberton succeeded in creating what he intended, a temperance drink.
With cries against alcohol reaching a fever pitch in the region Pemberton worked to create a drink that could satisfy the anti-alcohol crowd as well as his need to turn a profit.
Although John Pemberton created the formula for Coca-Cola it fell to others to turn the product into a profitable enterprise.
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 Boston.com / News / This Day in History / Today in history - May 8   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In 1958, Vice President Nixon was shoved, stoned, booed and spat upon by anti-American protesters in Lima, Peru.
The Michigan Wolverines were barred from the next postseason and put on three and a-half years' probation by the NCAA for a booster's payments to players dating to the Fab Five era.
Singer John Fred (John Fred and His Playboy Band) is 63.
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 Coca-Cola, Schmidt Family, and Schmidt Museum History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Atlanta Pharmacist and former Confederate Captain in the Civil War, Dr. John Styth Pemberton was the inventor of the "secret formula" that would later become known as Coca-Cola.
In 1886, while working on an elixir or in his words; "the ideal brain tonic", Dr. Pemberton took the basic formula of his earlier French Wine Coca, took out the wine, added extract of Cola nut, essential oils and other ingredients to concoct what his bookkeeper, Frank Robinson, later branded Coca-Cola ®.
John Pemberton died in 1888, and through a series of complicated transactions, another Atlanta druggist, Asa Candler, ended up with control of the Coca-Cola Company.
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 Coca-Cola Great Britain - Working with bottling franchisees around the world - Benefiting from a franchise arrangement
The Coca-Cola brand image is widely recognised throughout the world and has become a symbol of successful global marketing.
The script for Coca-Cola has not changed since first written by Frank Robinson, book-keeper to the inventor of Coca-Cola, John Styth Pemberton.
The Coca-Cola franchisee therefore has access to one of the most highly desired products and one of the most successful marketing distribution systems in the world.
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 Papers and information on the Soft Drink Industry
Coca Cola was invented by an Atlanta pharmacist John Pemberton in 1886.
Pemberton had served in the Civil War as a cavalry soldier.
John Candlers (Asa's brother) and sought legal aid in getting his share of the proceeds.
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 The history of Coca-Cola
It was May, 1886 in Atlanta, Georgia when Dr. John Styth Pemberton finally achieved his desired product-a medicinal liquid that tasted good enough to drink.
The name Coca-Cola was suggested by Dr. Pemberton's bookeeper, Frank M. Robinson.
Since Pemberton had expenses totalling just more than $70, he took a loss for the year.
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 History of Coca Cola Free Essay
Coca-Cola, invented by John Styth Pemberton, has come from a head ache medicine to an international soft drink known all over the world.
CREATION OF COKE In 1886, at the same time the Statue of Liberty was being built, John Styth Pemberton was in his drugstore creating the soft drink that would change the world.
Pemberton was a Civil War veteran that h
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 Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola named Neville Isdell, a 60-year-old former company insider, as its chairman and chief executive officer, ending a three-month search at the world's largest soft drink maker.
Jacob's Pharmacy, in Atlanta on Peachtree Street, was where Dr. John S. Pemberton sold the first Coca-Cola, named by accountant Frank Robinson.
By 1900 Asa Chandler, who brought the company from Dr. Pemberton in 1888, had spread across the United States and into Canada.
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 History of C C
Dr John Styth Pemberton from Knoxville, Georgia moved to Atlanta in 1869.
On the first year, Pemberton sold only 25 gallons of the formula grossing $50.00 with a net loss of $23.96.
Not knowing the potential of the formula, and because he was in poor health, Dr Pemberton sold his remaining interest to a partnership on April 14, 1888.
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In 1886, John Styth Pemberton, seeking a remedy for headaches and other ailments, concocted Coca-Cola from kola nut and coca plant extracts in his backyard.
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