Word: pemberton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Candler who originated Coca-Cola. Its inventor was one J. S. Pemberton, who, in 1886, made the first Coca-Cola in an old house on Marietta Street, Atlanta, Ga. During its first year Coca-Cola sold only 25 gallons and had for its outlets only Atlanta's three soda fountains. In 1889, however, Mr. Candler purchased an interest in the company (reputedly for $500) started to put Coca-Cola over in a large way. So successful was he that in 1919 the company was sold for $25,000,000, was organized as a Delaware corporation. The present management took...
...family. His father, William Henry Osborn, was a founder and for many years president of the Illinois Central Railroad. Ancestors were the Osborns of colonial Salem, Mass. On Dr. Osborn's mother's side, Nathan Gold and Andrew Ward were active in the Revolution; Reverend Ebenezer Pemberton was one of the three founders of Princeton (where Dr. Osborn later studied and taught); Jonathan Sturges was a president of the New York Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Osborn has an able younger brother. William Church Osborn, 66, Manhattan lawyer and director of rich corporations. William Church was born in rustic...
...Pemberton Hill...
Elihu Yale was the son of David Yale, a merchant whose house stood on what was then known as Pemberton Hill, a prominence about half-way from Scollay Square and the Court House, which was cut down in the last century. It was not until recent years that the birthplace of the Governor of Madras was located, owing to the fact that geneologists were net aware that David was the father of Elihu. During some researches carried on for English societies, it was discovered by Waters, a prominent Boston geneologist, that Elihu was the son of David Yale, or Yeale...
...telephone receiver in the directors' room of his company, in Manhattan, heard a sharp feminine voice say, "Hello, London? Sir Evelyn." A sharper feminine voice replied, "London ready." Said he into his transmitter, "Good morning, Sir. This is Mr. Gifford in New York." Sir George Evelyn Pemberton Murray, Secretary of the General Postoffice of Great Britain, in London, replied, "Good morning, Mr. Gifford. Yes, I can hear you perfectly. Can you hear me?" Reassured, Sir Evelyn said, "Splendid!" Mr. Gifford read a formal statement. There had been a hot race among U. S. bank presidents, actresses, businessmen, newspapers...