He next began experimenting with coca and coca wines, eventually creating a recipe that contained extracts of kola nut and damiana, which he called Pemberton's French Wine Coca. Tuggle's Compound Syrup of Globe Flower", in which the active ingredient was derived from the buttonbush ( Cephalanthus occidentalis), a toxic plant. In 1866, seeking a cure for his addiction, he began to experiment with painkillers that would serve as morphine-free alternatives to morphine. He soon became addicted to the morphine used to ease his pain. In April 1865, Pemberton sustained a saber wound to the chest during the Battle of Columbus. They lived in a Victorian cottage, the Pemberton House in Columbus, a home of historic significance which was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 28, 1971. Their only child, Charles Nay Pemberton, was born in 1854. He met Ann Eliza Clifford Lewis of Columbus, Georgia, known to her friends as "Cliff", who had been a student at Wesleyan College in Macon. He achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel. ĭuring the American Civil War, Pemberton served in the Third Cavalry Battalion of the Georgia State Guard, which was at that time a component of the Confederate Army. After initially practicing some medicine and surgery, Pemberton opened a drug store in Columbus. Pemberton entered the Reform Medical College of Georgia in Macon, Georgia, and in 1850, at the age of nineteen, he earned his medical degree. Pemberton was born on July 8, 1831, in Knoxville, Georgia, and spent most of his childhood in Rome, Georgia. In the end, after development of an earlier beverage blending alcohol and cocaine, this led to the recipe that later was adapted to make Coca-Cola.
He began to experiment with various painkillers and toxins. His efforts to control his chronic pain led to morphine addiction. He suffered from a sabre wound sustained in April 1865, during the Battle of Columbus. In May 1886, he developed an early version of a beverage that would later become Coca-Cola, but sold his rights to the drink shortly before his death in 1888. John Stith Pemberton (J– August 16, 1888) was an American pharmacist and Confederate States Army veteran who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola. Third Cavalry Battalion of the Georgia State Guard
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