John Thomas Lupton

John Thomas Lupton

Infobox Celebrity
name = John Thomas Lupton


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birth_date = 1862
birth_place = Winchester, Virginia
death_date = 1933
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occupation = Lawyer, industrialist and philanthropist
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networth =
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John Thomas Lupton (1862-1933) was an American lawyer, industrialist and philanthropist who along with Benjamin Thomas and Joseph Whitehead, obtained exclusive rights from Asa Candler to bottle and sell Coca-Cola. [cite_book|chapter=The Spirit of the Fathers |chapterurl=http://oldmoneynewsouth.com/images/FirstTenPages.pdf |title=Old Money, New South |author=Dean Arnold |publisher=Chattanooga Historical Foundation |date=2006]

Early life

Lupton was born near Winchester, Virginia and received a degree in law from the University of Virginia. After a visit to the home of a fellow student, he settled in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1887. [cite_encyclopedia|title=John Thomas Lupton |url=http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=L057 |encyclopedia=The Tennessee Encyclopedia |author=Ned L. Irwin |date=1998]

Lupton soon met Elizabeth Patten, daughter of Chattem founder Zeboim Cartter Patten, and they married on November 14, 1889. They had a son named Cartter Lupton, to whom they left the bulk of their combined wealth. [cite_book|chapter=Elizabeth Patten And John Thomas Lupton |chapterurl= |title=The Patten Chronicle |author=John Wilson |publisher=Chattanooga News Free Press |date=1986]

Career

After his marriage, Lupton took a job as legal counsel to the Chattanooga Medicine Company (now Chattem), eventually becoming company vice president and treasurer. [cite_encyclopedia|title=John Thomas Lupton |url=http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=L057 |encyclopedia=The Tennessee Encyclopedia |author=Ned L. Irwin |date=1998]

Lupton, Whitehead and Thomas were the primary investors in the Dixie Coca-Cola Bottling Company, the first Coca-Cola bottling plant in the United States. Following the business' rapid success, the partners divided the country into territories and gave various family members responsibility over them and began selling bottling franchises. By 1909, nearly 400 bottling operations had been opened. [cite_book|chapter=Elizabeth Patten And John Thomas Lupton |chapterurl= |title=The Patten Chronicle |author=John Wilson |publisher=Chattanooga News Free Press |date=1986]

Philanthropy

Lupton was a significant contributor to a number of southern colleges and universities; Oglethorpe University and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga have both named buildings on their campuses in his honor.

References

ee also

* Cartter Lupton
* Zeboim Cartter Patten
* Benjamin Thomas
* Lyndhurst Foundation
* Coca-Cola Bottling Company


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