Name Claud Hatcher | Role Pharmacist | |
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Died December 31, 1933, Columbus, Georgia, United States | ||
RC Cola
Claud Adkins Hatcher (20 August 1876 – 31 December 1933) invented RC (Royal Crown) beverages. He was an American Columbus, Georgia pharmacist and son of a grocer.
Through the family-owned Hatcher Grocery Company, Hatcher introduced a cola drink in 1905 called Royal Crown Ginger Ale. In the same year a company was formed to bottle the popular drinks, Union Bottling Works.
Hatcher is buried in the Riverdale Cemetery in Muscogee County, Georgia. His will established the Pickett & Hatcher Educational Fund, a non-profit student lender.
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