In 1906 he completed Atlanta's then-tallest building, the Candler Building, whose intricately detailed 17 stories still stands at Peachtree and Auburn. The school's original library now houses classrooms and a reading room named for him, as well as endowed chairs in the school's chemistry department. Candler also gave millions to what would later become Emory Hospital. This gift was influenced by Asa's younger brother, Methodist Bishop Warren Akin Candler, who became president of Emory.
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He gave a $1 million plus land gift to Emory University, a Methodist college, for the school to move from Oxford, Georgia, to Atlanta. Candler made millions of dollars from his investment, allowing him to establish the Central Bank and Trust Corp., invest in real estate, and became a major philanthropist for the Methodist Church.
The success of Coca-Cola was largely due to Candler's aggressive marketing of the product. In 1888 he bought the formula for Coca-Cola from its inventor John Pemberton and several other shareholders for $550. He started his business career as a drugstore clerk and manufacturer of patent medicines. His parents were Samuel Charles Candler and Martha Beall. Candler was born on Decemin Villa Rica, Georgia.
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