- Edwin Wiley Grove
Edwin Wiley Grove (1850 – 1927) was a self-made millionaire most famous for his "Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic." In this chill tonic, which came out 1878, Grove found a way to bottle a
quinine mixture that would eliminate the bitter taste. The tasteless chill tonic, which some claimed was not all that tasteless, was an improvement over taking straight quinine for fevers and chills caused bymalaria . A sweet syrup and lemon flavor was added to Quinine,cinchonine andcinchonidine , which were the main ingredients in crystal form in the tonic. Some sources claim that by 1890 more bottles of Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic were sold than bottles of Coca-Cola.“I had a little drug business in Paris, Tennessee, just barely making a living, when I got up a real invention, tasteless quinine. As a poor man and a poor boy, I conceived the idea that whoever could produce a tasteless chill tonic, his fortune was made.” — E.W. Grove
His company was called the Paris Medicine Company [ [http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/mss/biltmore_industries/history/historydefault.htm Through a cooperative agreement with Grovewood Gallery ] ] and it was through this fortune that he built the
Grove Park Inn with his son-in-lawFred Loring Seely in 1913.References
* [http://www.ewgrove.com/groveleg/ewdex.htm Dr. Edwin Wiley Grove ] at www.ewgrove.com [http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=G044a Edwin Wiley Grove] in the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture
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