Dr. Jesse Willis Rankin (1839 near Tallahassee, Florida

Tallahassee, Florida

Tallahassee is the capital of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat and only incorporated municipality in Leon County, and is the 128th largest city in the United States. Tallahassee became the capital of Florida, then the Florida Territory, in 1824. In 2010, the population recorded by...

 - d. Feb. 25, 1892 Atlanta) was a leading Atlanta businessman of the 19th century. He cofounded the S. S. S. Company along with Charles T. Swift, which would become at one point the country's largest patent medicine company (its namesake "S. S. S. Tonic" is still in production). He also cofounded and for a time led the Metropolitan Street Railroad which brought horsecar and later electric streetcar lines to the Washington-Rawson

Washington-Rawson

Washington-Rawson was a neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. It included the area that is now the large parking lot north of Turner Field, until 1997 the site of Atlanta Fulton County Stadium. It also included the intersection of the two streets for which it was named; that intersection's location is...

 and Grant Park

Grant Park (Atlanta)

Grant Park refers to the oldest city park in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, as well as the Victorian neighborhood surrounding it.-Park:Grant Park is the fourth-largest in the city, behind Chastain Park, Freedom Park and Piedmont Park...

 neighborhoods and to Clark Atlanta University

Clark Atlanta University

Clark Atlanta University is a private, historically black university in Atlanta, Georgia. It was formed in 1988 with the consolidation of Clark College and Atlanta University...

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External links

• "To his rest: One of Atlanta's best citizens taken away: Death of Dr. Jesse W. Rankin", Atlanta Constitution, February 26, 1892
• Photos of Lamar & Rankin Drug Company at Atlanta History Center