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J. C. Mayfield
James C. Mayfield (born c. 1856) was an American businessman who bought one third of the rights to the Pemberton Medicine Company (founded by John Pemberton) in 1888. Mayfield was under the mistaken impression that he had acquired the rights to Coca-Cola, but in fact Pemberton had already sold a stake to the formula to two other individuals, Margaret Dozier and Woolfolk Walker. Moreover, Pemberton sold the rights to manufacture Coca-Cola a second time that year, to Asa Candler. Mayfield nevertheless reincorporated the Pemberton Medicine Company in 1894, as the Wine Coca Company, and attempted to continue selling Coca-Cola (under the name of Pemberton's French Wine Coca, but with the formula modified to resemble Coke). His ex-wife, under the pseudonym Diva Brown also attempted to sell a Coca-Cola imitation, called My-Cola. She claimed her beverage used Pemberton's original formula, although Mayfield disputed it. In 1899 Mayfield and his sons founded the Celery Cola Company in Birm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pemberton Medicine Company
Pemberton may refer to: People *Pemberton (surname) Places Pemberton is the name of several places: Australia *Pemberton, Queensland, a neighbourhood in Windemere in the Bundaberg Region *Pemberton, Western Australia Canada *Pemberton, British Columbia *Pemberton Valley, a name for the valley along the Lillooet River in British Columbia that includes the community *Pemberton Volcanic Belt United Kingdom *Pemberton, Greater Manchester, a residential area of Wigan **Pemberton (ward), an electoral ward of the Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council *Pemberton, Carmarthenshire United States *Pemberton, Minnesota *Pemberton, New Jersey *Pemberton, Ohio *Pemberton Heights, New Jersey *Pemberton Mill, Lawrence, Massachusetts *Pemberton Point, Hull, Massachusetts *Pemberton Township, New Jersey See also *''Pemberton v. Tallahassee Memorial Regional Center'' *Pemberton Music Festival *Pemberton Festival {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |