Candler was born in Villa Rica, Georgia. He began his business career as a drugstore owner. In 1887 he bought the formula for Coca_Cola from its inventor John Pemberton for $2,300. The success of Coca-Cola was largely due to Candler's aggressive marketing of the product. Candler made millions of dollars from his investment and became a major philanthropist for the Methodist Church. He gave $1 million dollars plus a land gift to Emory University for the school to move from Oxford, Georgia to Atlanta. Emory's theology school and theology library are named in honor of him. Candler also gave millions to what would later become Emory Hospital.
Asa Griggs Candler, founder of the Coca-Cola Company, was also a banker and real estate developer and was noted for his philanthropy.
Born in Carroll County in 1851, Candler was one of eleven children of a prosperous merchant and planter.
Candler's best-known philanthropy was in the form of a personal check for $1 million, donated to defray the costs of establishing Emory University in Atlanta as a Southern Methodist institution.
Warren Akin Candler was the tenth of eleven children born to Samuel Candler, a prosperous Villa Rica merchant and planter, and his wife, Martha Bernetta Beall.
AsaCandler wrote a check for $1 million to defray expenses of moving Emory's headquarters from Oxford to acreage he donated in his Druid Hills development in the eastern suburbs of Atlanta.
Candler continued to write and announced his intention to "preach until I die." He received many honors and gestures of public affection, including the gift of a Franklin sedan.
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