Also in 1903, he moved his Pepsi-Cola production out of his drug store and into a rented building nearby. On December 24, 1902, the Pepsi-Cola Company was incorporated in North Carolina, with Bradham as the president, and on Jthe first Pepsi-Cola trademark was registered. His assistant James Henry King was the first to taste the new drink. Bradham named his drink after a combination of the terms “ pepsin” and “ cola,” as he believed that his drink aided digestion much like the pepsin enzyme does, even though it was not used as an ingredient. Middle Street and Pollock Street in downtown New Bern, is where Bradham, in 1893, invented the recipe-a blend of kola nut extract, vanilla, and "rare oils"-for what was initially known as "Brad's Drink," but on Augwas renamed Pepsi-Cola. After returning to North Carolina, he was a public school teacher for about a year, and soon thereafter opened a drug store in New Bern named the "Bradham Drug Company" that, like many other drug stores of the time, also housed a soda fountain. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was a member of the Philanthropic Society, and attended the University of Maryland School of Medicine.Ĭirca 1890, he dropped out of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, owing to his father's business going bankrupt. Bradham was of English and Scots-Irish descent. Bradham was born to George Washington, and Julia McCann Bradham in Chinquapin, North Carolina.
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