Originally intended as a patent medicine when it was invented in the late 19th century by John Pemberton, Coca-Cola was bought out by businessman Asa Griggs Candler, whose marketing tactics led Coke to its dominance of the world soft-drink market throughout the 20th century.

Candler County, was named in 1914 for Allen D. Candler in appreciation for his passion and diligence in compiling and editing nearly thirty volumes of the State's historical records from the Colonial, Revolutionary and Confederate periods.

His land was later purchased by Walter Candler.

His land was later purchased by Walter Candler.

The result was an early version of Coca-Cola, although the coca ingredient ( cocaine ) was the main active ingredient when the company was acquired by Asa Candler.

Nothing suitable was available in Washington in 1936, so the Social Security Board selected the Candler Building on Baltimore's harbor as a temporary location.

As part of the agreement, the property was renamed Candler Field after its former owner, Coca-Cola tycoon and former Atlanta mayor Asa Candler.

The first flight into Candler Field was on September 15, 1926, a Florida Airways mail plane flying from Jacksonville, Florida.

Candler Field's first control tower was opened March 1939.

In 1946 Candler Field was renamed Atlanta Municipal Airport and by 1948, more than one million passengers passed through a war surplus hangar that served as a terminal building.

However, the church was responsible for founding four of the South's top divinity schools: Vanderbilt Divinity School, Duke Divinity School, Candler School of Theology at Emory University and Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University.

From 1983 to 1993, Moltmann was the Robert W. Woodruff Distinguished Visiting Professor of Systematic Theology at Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

In 1887, the Coca-Cola Company was incorporated in Atlanta with Asa Candler as one of the partners.

By 1895 Candler announced to shareholders that Coca-Cola was served in every state in the United States.

* The Atlanta Biltmore Hotel, designed by Schultze & Weaver, opened in Atlanta, Georgia in 1924 at a cost of $ 6 million, it was organized by Coca-Cola heir William Candler, Holland Ball Judkins, and Bowman.

Dr. John Candler Cobb, Professor of Preventive Medicine at the University of Colorado Medical Center, testified that the most significant danger of radioactive contamination came from the 1967 incident in which oil barrels containing plutonium leaked of oil into sand under the barrels, which was then blown by strong winds as far away as Denver.

Asa Griggs Candler ( December 30, 1851 – March 12, 1929 ) was an American business tycoon who made his fortune selling Coca-Cola.

Candler Field, the site of the present-day Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, was named after him, as is Candler Park in Atlanta.

Candler was born in Rome, Georgia.

As that designation suggests, state officials originally intended the Stone Mountain Freeway to continue west, through Decatur, Druid Hills and Candler Park, to downtown Atlanta.

Much smaller and poorer were Randolph-Macon College in Virginia, with its two affiliated fitting-schools and Woman's College ; Emory College, in Atlanta ( with Candler family money far in the future ); Emory & Henry, in Southwest Virginia ; Wofford, with its two fitting-schools, in South Carolina ; Trinity, in North Carolina — soon to be endowed by the Duke family and change its name ; Central, in Missouri ; Southern, in Alabama ; Southwestern, in Texas ; Wesleyan, in Kentucky ; Millsaps, in Mississippi ; Centenary, in Louisiana ; Hendrix, in Arkansas ; and Pacific, in California.

Saliers has co-written a book with her father, Don Saliers, a retired theology professor at Candler School of Theology at Emory University, called A Song to Sing, a Life to Live: Reflections on Music as Spiritual Practice.

This gift was influenced by Asa's younger brother, Methodist Bishop Warren Akin Candler, who became president of Emory.

In 1899, Methodist Bishop Warren Candler's brother Asa Candler was elected to Emory's Board of Trustees and was a generous patron of the university.

Asa Candler went on to serve as chair of the Emory University Board of Trustees and his brother later served as university president.

He was a long-time member of Emory's Board of Trustees ; his brother Warren A. Candler was a president of Emory College and the first chancellor of Emory University.

The following important figures were also born in Villa Rica: Coca-cola business tycoon and former mayor of Atlanta Asa Griggs Candler ; former Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and tenth president of Emory University Warren Akin Candler ; former baseball star Fred " Dixie " Walker ; former University of Georgia offensive tackle Ken Shackleford ; and former NFL punter Herman " Thunderfoot " Weaver.

* Warren Akin Candler, for whom Emory's Candler School of Theology is named.

President Warren Candler started Emory's first intramural sports program in 1897, although he was strongly against intercollegiate sports programs.

Founded in 1914, the school was named after Warren Akin Candler, a former President and Chancellor of Emory University and a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

( Letters from 1914-1915 in the Warren Candler Papers include many suggestions for names for the new university.

) At the meeting where the letter was read Atlanta was chosen as the location, and Bishop Warren A. Candler was named chancellor.

* 1922-In 1922, as Warren Candler was relinquishing administrative control of the University, the theology school decided to allow the registration of women to prepare them for Christian service in home and foreign mission fields.

Candler made millions of dollars from his investment, allowing him to establish the Central Bank and Trust Corp., invest in real estate, and became a major philanthropist for the Methodist Church.

Coca-Cola founders Asa G. Candler and Dr. John S. Pemberton are seen together at Asa G. Candler & Co. pharmacy, 47 Peachtree St., Atlanta in the only extant albumen photograph from 1888.

Also shown is the biography of Candler written by his son, Charles Howard Candler.

However many new approaches have appeared in recent years, especially by such scholars as Wilda Anderson, Kurt Ballstadt, Daniel Brewer, Jay Caplan, Andrew Clark, Elisabeth de Fontenay, Rosalina de la Carrera, Julie Candler Hays, Thomas M. Kavanagh, Walter Rex, and Pierre Saint-Amand.

* 1851 – Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician ( d. 1929 )

* March 12 – Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician ( b. 1851 )

* December 30 – Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician ( d. 1929 )

The last part of the highway opened up on September 22, 1978, running it through Emanuel County, Candler County, and Bulloch County completing the connection between downtown Macon and Savannah.

Evans County is bordered on the northwest by Candler County ; on the northeast by Bulloch County ; on the east by Bryan County ; on the southeast by Liberty County and on the southwest by Tattnall County.

Portions of Johnson ( 1858 ), Jenkins ( 1905 ), Toombs ( 1905 ), Candler ( 1914 ), and Treutlen ( 1918 ) counties were taken from Emanuel's original borders.

Candler County is a county located in the U. S. state of Georgia.