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My "I am..." person is John Stith Pemberton. Before I started researching, I knew Pemberton was the inventor of Coca Cola, a beverage still popular today. The only additional information that I knew about him was that he lived in the era of the American Civil War. While researching John Pemberton, I was curious about why Pemberton named his invention Coca Cola? I've also wondered if Pemberton wanted to expand his invention of Coca Cola to making not only the beverage but other products such as candy? During my research, I found out that he had unfinished formulas of Coca Cola and it crossed my mind that if he had lived longer, how could this have affected the world of beverage today.


 * Why wasn't the Coca Cola invention passed on throughout the Pemberton household?

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 * Timeline**

Document - [|Coca Cola Colombus Foundation] Quotes > My best recollection is that this process was for the purpose of "ripening" the mixture by letting it filter through without access of air. There were two large kettles such as sorghum and sugar cane juices were boiled in Paddles of ash similar to those used in propelling canoes stirred the liquid while it was boiled before being taken through the filtering and fermentation process."//
 * Primary Sources**
 * [|Beverage Industry: Celebrating 50 Years of Service - Coca Cola TV Advertisements]
 * [|John Stith Pemberton]
 * " //The remodelling and equipment of this Marietta Street house absorbed all the money Uncle John had or could get The wonderful part of the equipment, to me at least, was the enormous filter made of matched flooring, wide at the top and narrowing to the base. It was built through the floor of a second story room and the ceiling of the room below. This big hamper-like receptacle was filled with Chattahoochee River washed sand, Uncle John explained. The prepared ingredients of coca cola were poured into the top of this filter and treacled through the several wagon loads of washed sand into a metal trough.

- Pemberton did not realize that Coca Cola had great potential to be successful since it didn't make profit in the first year of sales. His son, Charles, did indeed get his father's permission to manage coca cola company but he did not realize either so "Asa Griggs Candler" bought the shares and succeeded in the future.
 * Secondary Sources**
 * [|Dr. John S. Pemberton (inventor of Coca Cola)]
 * [|The Chronicle of Coca Cola]
 * [|Coca Cola History]