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Edward Mead Johnson (April 23, 1852 – March 20, 1934) was an American businessman and one of the co-founders of Johnson & Johnson. In 1886, Edward Mead Johnson abandoned a career in law and joined his two brothers Robert Wood Johnson I, and James Wood Johnson to found Johnson & Johnson in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Feb 6, 2019 · The largest healthcare company in the world began as a simple partnership among three forward-thinking siblings. We explore the lasting impact James, Edward Mead and Robert Johnson, the company’s first president, had on Johnson & Johnson.
Edward Mead Johnson died in 1934, and Lambert Mead Johnson succeeded his father as president, and served in the position until 1955, making him the longest-serving president in company history. D. Mead Johnson was the third generation of the family to serve as chief executive of the firm.
Edward Mead Johnson, 1890. This is the only known photograph of company founder Edward Mead Johnson in the Johnson & Johnson Archives. Johnson was a talented advertiser who left the company in the late 1890s to found Mead Johnson Nutrition (later Mead Johnson & Company).
Apr 10, 2005 · Founded in 1886 by three brothers -- Robert Wood Johnson, James Wood Johnson and Edward Mead Johnson -- the company remained fully under family control until 1944, when it began to sell...
Johnson & Johnson is Founded, 1886. Robert Wood Johnson, along with his two younger brothers, James Wood and Edward Mead, launched the company. Its first factory opened in New Brunswick, New Jersey, with just 14 employees: eight women and six men.
In 1898, increasingly focused on the company’s products to improve digestion, Edward Mead Johnson left Johnson & Johnson, taking with him the company’s digestive products business. Edward Mead Johnson’s new company began focusing on products to help infants who were unable to digest milk.
Feb 19, 2010 · If things had turned out differently for James Wood Johnson and Edward Mead Johnson, two of the three brothers who founded Johnson & Johnson, they might be known for making not the first mass produced sterile surgical dressings and sterile sutures, but typewriters.
May 20, 2020 · The three brothers who founded Johnson & Johnson—Robert Wood Johnson, James Wood Johnson and Edward Mead Johnson—were too young to serve in the war, but two of their older brothers served in the Union Army as part of the Pennsylvania regiment.
Johnson & Johnson was founded in 1886 by three brothers, Robert Wood Johnson, James Wood Johnson, and Edward Mead Johnson, selling ready-to-use sterile surgical dressings. In 2023, the company split off its consumer healthcare business sector into a new publicly traded company, Kenvue.
