Claude A. Hatcher

Claude Adkins Hatcher (20 August 1876 – 31 December 1933) was a Columbus, Georgia pharmacist and son of a grocer.

Through the family-owned Hatcher Grocery Company, a cola drink was introduced in 1905 as Chero-Cola. In the same year a company was formed to bottle the popular drinks, Union Bottling Works. Chero-Cola became R.C. Cola in 1933.

Hatcher is buried in the Riverdale Cemetery in Muscogee County, Georgia. His will established the Pickett & Hatcher Educational Fund, a non-profit student lender.

References

• Brief History of the Royal Crown Cola Company
• Royal Crown Cola History
• Pickett & Hatcher Educational Fund, An Overview of the Foundation

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Name	Hatcher, Claude A.
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Date of birth	20 August 1876
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Date of death	31 December 1933
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