Talk:John Stith Pemberton

message: he was a folk singer? that seems too random
someone take out 'folk singer'
:And someone added "Jewish" too, but unsourced.  I removed it.  Bruxism (talk) 03:16, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  huh? 

message: How reliable is this information?  It's sourced to Dominic Streatfeild's Cocaine: An Unauthorised Biography, but how reliable is that book?  It has no footnotes, and on the very page containing this information it also claims that Pemberton sold the business to Candler in 1891, which is impossible since he was already three years in the grave!  It seems to me that a mistake like that casts doubt on Streatfeild's research (if any), and none of his story about Pemberton should be usable.  -- Zsero (talk) 00:10, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pemberton's addiction 

message: Does anyone know how Pemberton died? He would have been 57 at the time of death which is too young to die of old age. 98.226.68.29 (talk) 19:32, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I always figured he died of an overdosis morphine. But searching the internet I found no such indication.  NNDB.com states cancer as his cause of death. However the type is unspecified, so I have my doubts whether the doctor did a proper autopsy. --Robinandroid (talk) 20:25, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

text: How did he died 71.213.136.176 (talk) 22:26, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cause of death? 

message: John S. Pemberton's father was James C. Pemberton, who was born about 1803-1806 in either North Carolina or South Carolina, according to the 1850 and 1860 census records. General John Clifford Pemberton's father and mother were not married until 1812 in Pennsylvania, according to Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (published 1978 by the Genealogical Publishing Company). Therefore, it is very unlikely that James C. Pemberton is a brother of General John Clifford Pemberton. James was born before the marriage and in a different state entirely. A tree someone put on a Rootsweb website with no sources cited is NOT a valid source for the family connections. Just because John S Pemberton is of the right age to be the nephew of John C. Pemberton, and they both fought on the Confederate side, and they both have the same last name, and they are both famous, does NOT make them related.
 Jtrahan2003 (talk) 02:49, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, my claim that he is the general's nephew is casual.  If somebody knows better, they should correct my possible mistake.  I am adding a "citation needed".  In case it is found that he is not the general's nephew, the article should have a note to the effect that he is often mistaken for the general's nephew.CountMacula (talk) 01:25, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The article currently reflects Brownsguides for Georgia. When the authors of that biography change their story, per argument above, then correction will be forced.Rgdboer (talk) 21:57, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  NOT THE NEPHEW OF JOHN CLIFFORD PEMBERTON, CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE GENERAL 

message: You say Coca-Cola was first bottled in 1894. In what form, or in what sort of container, was it distributed before that? 86.181.87.252 (talk) 15:13, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  First sold in what form? 

message: In order to be an inventor, you have to create a generic type of product not previously in existence. Creating a brand name, as opposed to a generic type of product, makes you a founder and not an inventor. 
Soda pop does in fact predate the 1886 founding of Coca-Cola. Quod Erat Demonstrandum. The Mysterious El Willstro (talk) 05:57, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Founder, not inventor, and here's why 

message: This is not correct-----
 During his early life he was selling lime juice for living, Mr. Rahul Gandhi confirms that. King, Monroe M. "John Stith Pemberton (1831-1888)." New Georgia Encyclopedia. 13 June 2017. Web. 11 September 2017.
--------This is not correct Mango458 (talk) 07:15, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 12 June 2018 

message: change Knoxville, Georgia to Jumritalayya, India
change Inventor of Coca-Cola to Shikanji Desaiardeshir (talk) 09:14, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: as you have not cited reliable sources to back up your request, without which no information should be added to, or changed in, any article. - Arjayay (talk) 11:04, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 12 June 2018 

message: man. He looks like a former president. But he's actually a owner of coke 76.25.196.38 (talk) 03:19, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  WOW 

message: In fixing the following  reference, I discovered that the source cited has a slightly different url:
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The url in the reference was changed from
 https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/john-s-pemberton
to
 https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/john-pemberton
The john-s-pemberton page has been archived on the wayback machine 9 times starting April 29, 2016 and (as of this date) ending January 24, 2023  The last intact page was captured on August 10, 2020. The captures in 2021 and thereafter are Page not found.
The john-pemberton page has been archived on the wayback machine 10 times beginning January 26, 2021 and (as of this date) ending October 5, 2023. I haven't checked all of these pages, but the first one, Jan 26, 2021 is complete
I'm not sure where, if anywhere, I should note this change so I have written this brief notice.
--CmdrDan (talk) 19:41, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notice: Updated John Pemberton ref; url thereof has changed (but only slightly)