John Thomas Lupton was born near Winchester, Virginia. After receiving a law degree from the University of Virginia, he settled in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1877 after visiting a classmate. He married Elizabeth Patten, daughter of Chattanooga Medicine Company which is now Chattem Inc. founder Zeboim Cartter Patten, on November 14, 1889. After his marriage, he worked as legal counsel to the Chattanooga Medicine Company, eventually becoming the vice president and treasurer of the company. Beside having his own law office, he was known as an industrialist and philanthropist giving millions to help the city of Chattanooga, Tennesse grow to become what it is known today. Lupton, Benjamin Thomas and Joseph Whitehead, obtained exclusive rights from Asa Candler in Atlanta, Georgia, to bottle and sell Coca-Cola in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which was the first Coca-Cola bottling plant in the United States. Later, he bought the rights from Joe Whitehead. He chose his friends and relatives to become millionaires across the country by giving them bottling plants. He was known as being one of the richest men in American history. He built the Lyndhurst mansion in Riverview, which had 34,000 square feet, 10 beds, 12 baths, an indoor pool, bowling alley, and pipe organ. His son, Cartter, died in 1977, and his probated will revealed an estate worth hundreds of millions, exceeding the estate of Howard Hughes, probated the same year. Cartter's son, Jack who was the grandson of John T., grew the bottling enterprise into an even greater empire, selling for $1.4 billion in 1986.
John Thomas Lupton was born near Winchester, Virginia. After receiving a law degree from the University of Virginia, he settled in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1877 after visiting a classmate. He married Elizabeth Patten, daughter of Chattanooga Medicine Company which is now Chattem Inc. founder Zeboim Cartter Patten, on November 14, 1889. After his marriage, he worked as legal counsel to the Chattanooga Medicine Company, eventually becoming the vice president and treasurer of the company. Beside having his own law office, he was known as an industrialist and philanthropist giving millions to help the city of Chattanooga, Tennesse grow to become what it is known today. Lupton, Benjamin Thomas and Joseph Whitehead, obtained exclusive rights from Asa Candler in Atlanta, Georgia, to bottle and sell Coca-Cola in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which was the first Coca-Cola bottling plant in the United States. Later, he bought the rights from Joe Whitehead. He chose his friends and relatives to become millionaires across the country by giving them bottling plants. He was known as being one of the richest men in American history. He built the Lyndhurst mansion in Riverview, which had 34,000 square feet, 10 beds, 12 baths, an indoor pool, bowling alley, and pipe organ. His son, Cartter, died in 1977, and his probated will revealed an estate worth hundreds of millions, exceeding the estate of Howard Hughes, probated the same year. Cartter's son, Jack who was the grandson of John T., grew the bottling enterprise into an even greater empire, selling for $1.4 billion in 1986.
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