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Dr. Pemberton was a pharmacist and a civil war veteran from Atlanta, Georgia. He had a background in chemistry and pharmacy, and he sought to invent new medicinal products for various health issues.

It became a symbol of the New South after the Civil War, and it quickly grew to represent ... 1886 by Dr. John Stith Pemberton. He created it because his first invention, Pemberton’s French ...