how did dr john s. pemberton pass away?
Several times in his dying months he struggled to his laboratory to experiment with a modified cola drink with celery extract. He did not care anything about what he had already accomplished, one of his associates remarked, he wanted something new. On August 16, 1888, John Pemberton passed away. His obituary described him as the oldest druggist of Atlanta and one of her best-known citizens an especially popular gentleman. Comments John Pemberton's obsessive search for the perfect drink is typical of the inventor and of the early stages of a corporate history.