Joseph Whitehead (Coca-Cola bottler)

[3] Candler gave the two exclusive rights to bottle the soft drink.

After this meeting, Lupton partnered with them and he became the president of the Coca-Cola Bottling Company.

In 1895, he married Lettie Pate and then the couple moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee.

After his death, his widow took over "her husband's share of the bottling business, as well as his real estate interests," and "established the Whitehead Holding Company and the Whitehead Realty Company to manage her assets and those of her two sons.

"[5] Because of the philanthropy of his widow, Joseph Brown Whitehead has been the namesake for three health buildings on the main campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology.