Kilmer House

Joyce Kilmer, son of Scientific Director Fred Kilmer and occasional writer for early Johnson & Johnson publications On this Veteran’s Day and Remembrance Day, Kilmer House salutes veterans across the world. Since the Spanish American War in 1898, Johnson & Johnson and its operating companies around the world have had many employees who have served, and continue to serve, their countries in the military.  To honor our employee veterans and their family members, here are some photos from our archives of employee veterans from our early history. To read some of their stories,

Members of the Johnson & Johnson Women’s Basketball Team, 1946-1947 champions of the New Brunswick Industrial League As a company that will be 125 years old in 2011, Johnson & Johnson has many traditions:  some recent, and some dating back almost to our founding.  One of the most fun traditions throughout our history has been our employee athletes and sports teams. The Johnson & Johnson Employee Baseball Team: Our Earliest Employee Team For well over 100 years, employees at Johnson & Johnson have participated in organized sports.  The earliest record we have of our employee ath

Regular readers of Kilmer House know that Johnson & Johnson has been a pioneer in many areas of health care, but we also led the way in another, lesser known area as well: singing.  Singing? Yes, singing!  The massive success of the hit television show Glee has renewed people’s interest in glee clubs, so this seems like the perfect time to point out that, starting in 1942, Johnson & Johnson employees had a very popular Glee Club of their own that performed regularly at local and not-so-local events, sang on the radio and even appeared with a Hollywood movie star. Glee: decades before

Fred Kilmer In 1889, one of the most remarkable employees in the history of Johnson & Johnson arrived at our growing array of buildings as our new director of scientific affairs.  Just as the arrival of Robert Wood Johnson had created a whirlwind of excitement and activity at Johnson & Johnson, the entrance of the quiet, more introverted Fred Kilmer was about to do the same. Modern Methods of Antiseptic Wound Treatment: Published in 1888, it helped spread the adoption of antiseptic surgery. Since Kilmer had put together the groundbreaking Modern Methods of Antiseptic Wound Treatment fo

High school students taking over Johnson & Johnson for a day?  A seventeen-year old Chairman and CEO sitting at General Robert Wood Johnson’s desk?  What on earth was going on at Johnson & Johnson in the late 1940s and the 1950s?  It was all part of a program called A Day in Modern Industry…an early cousin to today’s Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work events. High School students at Johnson & Johnson for the A Day in Modern Industry Program Johnson & Johnson started the A Day in Modern Industry program in 1947 and, like the invention of BAND-AID® Brand Adhesive Bandages, it wa