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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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