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.[1]
Early life
Lupton was born near Winchester, Virginia, and received his undergraduate degree from Roanoke College in 1884 follow by his law degree from the University of Virginia. After a visit to the home of a fellow student, he settled in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1887.[2]
Lupton soon met Elizabeth Patten, daughter of Chattanooga Medicine Company founder Zeboim Cartter Patten, and they married on November 14, 1889. They had a son, Thomas Cartter Lupton, to whom they left the bulk of their combined wealth.