Jesse W. Rankin

Dr. Jesse Willis Rankin (1839 near Tallahassee, Florida - February 25, 1892 in 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 and Grant Park neighborhoods and to Clark Atlanta University.