CHAPTER 118
A Look Inside Our Original Building

In recognition of the 100th anniversary of the passing of Johnson & Johnson founder Robert Wood Johnson in 1910, this is one of several posts looking at the earliest years of Johnson & Johnson, Robert Wood Johnson as our first president, and the Company’s first senior management transition.
It’s 1887 and Johnson & Johnson has grown in just one year from 14 employees in one building to 125 employees in several buildings. Our original building from 1886, the four-story former wallpaper factory, is now the plaster mill, filled with machinery designed by founder James Wood Johnso