Show woman invented cocktail ti I 1 the origin of the tonn term cocktail Is 11 not known tito drink Is supposed to have been invented by elizabeth flanagan who was the widow of 0 an aa irish soldier who fell in the service of his country site she appears after his death to have been a gutter and in that capacity capac lly to have followed a troop of virginia horsemen under the command ot of colonel burr site she took up quarters in the winter of 1779 in a place culled called four corners here she set bet up a hotel and it was in that hotel that the drink that Is known as ail tile the cocktail was invented |